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  Professor Alin Achim
Post(s): Professor of Computational Imaging, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... areas of statistical signal processing with emphasis in estimat<b>ion</b> and detection theory, multiresolution algorithms with applications ...
Keywords: statistical image and video processing | estimation theory | multiresolution algorithms | remote sensing | medical Imaging | image fusion | image segmentation | image denoising
 
  Professor Jo Adams
Post(s): Professor of Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... Processes. The central interest of the laboratory is in cell-matrix adhes<b>ion</b> processes and their roles in regulating intracellular signalling ...
Keywords: signalling | cytoskeleton | extracellular matrix | cell motility processes | cell-matrix adhesion processes | intrecellular signalling | cell protrusions
 
  Professor John Adams
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: ... film and media forms, particularly existing and potential relat<b>ion</b>s between production, distribution and exhibition in response ...
Keywords: film analysis | film production | media studies | media production | film education | media education | film | media
 
  Dr Jitendra Agarwal
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... and it has been gaining depth and breadth through the continuat<b>ion</b> of this work, some of which is in collaboration with other ...
Keywords: structural safety | nonlinear dynamics | dynamic progressive collapse | vulnerability of structures | risk assessment of infrastructures
 
  Professor Varinder Aggarwal
Post(s): Professor, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... reactive intermediates (carbenes, carbenoids, radicals, radical cat<b>ion</b>s) and their use and subsequent applications in catalysis and ...
Keywords: catalytic processes | asymmetric synthesis | reactive intermediates | synthesis | carbenes | carbenoids | radicals | radical cations
 
  Dr Dimitris Agrafiotis
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: My research interests include robust video communicat<b>ion</b>s (error resilience, error concealment, multiple description ...
Keywords: robust and efficient wireless video delivery | video error resilience & concealement | video quality evaluation | perceptually optimised video compression
 
  Dr Marianne Ailes
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of French
Areas of expertise: ... research is focused on literature of the crusades, the percept<b>ion</b> and depiction of the Other, either the Saracen or the female ...
Keywords: Medieval French literature | early vernacular chronicles | literature of the crusades | Richard I | Charlemagne in England | Manuscript fragments
 
  Dr Valentine Akande
Post(s): Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Gynaecology and obstetrics; subfertility and assisted concept<b>ion</b>
Keywords: gynaecology and/or obstetrics | reproductive health | subfertility | laparoscopic surgery | infertility | assisted conception
 
  Professor Roger Alder
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: A major theme of my research has been the preparat<b>ion</b> and study of interesting molecules - nature has no monopoly ...
Keywords: molecules | stable diaminocarbenes | computational organic chemistry | conformational control by quaternary centres | strong amine bases | intrabrigehead chemistry | powerful alkylating agents
 
  Dr Kazem Alemzadeh
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... nature. An understanding of biomechanics enables me with inspirat<b>ion</b> for new product and development of better diagnostic procedures ...
Keywords: CAD/CAM & reverse engineering | restorative dentistry | condition monitoring | predictive maintenance
 
  Dr Nicholas Alexander
Post(s): Reader in Structural Dynamics, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... behaviour of nonlinear moment resisting frames under seismic excitat<b>ion</b>. -Pre-stressed frames with opening joints that allow structures ...
Keywords: earthquake engineering | structural dynamics | nonlinear dynamics
 
  Professor Neil Allan
Post(s): Professor of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: We use advanced simulat<b>ion</b> and modelling techniques to understand the properties of solids ...
Keywords: solids | surfaces | properties at the atomic level | atomistic simulation | quantum chemistry | inorganic materials | non-metallic solids
 
  Dr Giuliano Allegri
Post(s): Reader in Composite Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: My research is focused on the predict<b>ion</b> of damage onset and propagation in light alloys and composite ...
Keywords: prediction of damage onset | light alloys | composite materials | material fatigue | aeroelastics
 
  Professor Christian Allen
Post(s): Professor of Computational Aerodynamics/Head of Department of Aerospace, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: Numerical simulat<b>ion</b> of fluid/aerodynamics (CFD). Particular expertise in development ...
Keywords: aerodynamics | fluid dynamics | CFD | numerical simulation | aeroelastics | rotor blade flows
 
  Dr Mark Allinson
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of German
Areas of expertise: ... and teach on this and on current German politics and constitut<b>ion</b>al history. I also work on communism and extremism in the politics ...
Keywords: German history | German politics | East Germany | GDR | Austrian history | Austria | Cold War
 
  Dr Rob Andrews
Post(s): Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... researching the role that exercise and diet can play in the prevent<b>ion</b> and management of the metabolic syndrome. This goes from the ...
Keywords: diabetes | exercise | diet | obesity | insulin resistance | bariatric surgery
 
  Professor Christophe Andrieu
Post(s): Professor in Statistics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... are mostly probabilistic in nature in order to solve computat<b>ion</b>al problems ranging from engineering to biology. My work involves ...
Keywords: time series | applied probability | Bayesian modelling | Monte Carlo computation | optimisation under uncertainty | statistical signal processing
 
  Professor Alexandre Anesio
Post(s): Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... Firstly, I study microbes in the cryosphere. Against all expectat<b>ion</b>s glaciers harbour a highly active microbial community. Bacteria, ...
Keywords: low temperature biogeochemistry | polar microbiology | microbes in the cryosphere | photochemistry | carbon and nitrogen cycle in freshwaters | limnology | freshwater biology
 
  Professor Gianni Angelini
Post(s): BHF Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Director, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... beating heart (off-pump) coronary surgery; arterial revascularisat<b>ion</b>; mitral valve repair. The introduction and development of ...
Keywords: saphenous vein bypass graft failure | beating heart surgery | arterial revascularisation | mitral valve repair | cardiac surgery
 
  Dr Catherine Annen
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I use numerical simulat<b>ion</b> and heat transfer computation to explore magmatic processes. ...
Keywords: magmatic processes | pluton emplacement | magma | magma chambers | magma reservoirs
 
  Professor James Annett
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... of superconductors and systems with strong electron correlat<b>ion</b>. This especially includes high temperature superconductors ...
Keywords: superconductivity | electron correlation in solids
 
  Dr Massimo Antognozzi
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... liquid films. This technique will allow to detect the organizat<b>ion</b> of confined molecules with unprecedented nanometer spatial ...
Keywords: bio-nanoscience | microscope | confined liquid films | confined molecules | adsorbed biomolecules | molecular motors
 
  Dr Karen Aplin
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: I work on novel instrumentat<b>ion</b> for atmospheric and space science, mainly for electrical measurements. ...
Keywords: space science | Planetary atmospheres | Lightning and atmospheric electricity | Atmospheric science | Novel instrumentation | Science and music
 
  Professor John Armitage
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... the storage of living cells and tissues used in transplantat<b>ion</b> as well as clinical follow-up studies on corneal transplant ...
Keywords: cryobiology | organ transplants | tissue banking | eye banking | corneal transplantation
 
  Dr Simon Armour
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Software Radio, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: My expertise covers a spectrum of wireless communicat<b>ion</b>s techniques and technologies, particularly as applied to the ...
Keywords: wireless communications | 802.11, WiFi, 802.16 WiMax | Cross Layer Communications | Green Communications, Green Radio | Cognitive Communications, Cognitive Radio | Multicarrier Communications, OFDM, OFDMA, SC_FDMA | MIMO | Beyond 3G, 4G, LTE, LTE-A
 
  Dr Chris Arthur
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... spectrometry allows us to study the proteomic and metabolomic cell funct<b>ion</b>s. This might include, for instance, identifying a protein involved ...
Keywords: polyketides | mass spectrometry | natural products | drugs from bacteria, fungi and plants | analysis of proteins | proteomics | biosynthesis of fatty acids | biosynthesis
 
  Professor Raimondo Ascione
Post(s): Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Translational Research and Director of TBRC, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... effect of off-pump coronary surgery on sub-system organ dysfunct<b>ion</b>, mortality, morbidity, quality of life, and hospital costs. ...
Keywords: off-pump coronary surgery | quality of life | hospital costs | myocardial protection | valve repair | stem cells
 
  Dr Michael Ashby
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... synaptic plasticity coordinate dramatically to produce funct<b>ion</b>al circuits in the mammalian cortex. Using high resolution optical ...
Keywords: development of brain circuitry early in life | anatomical plasticity | synaptic plasticity | mammalian cortex | neonatal sensory experience
 
  Professor Mike Ashfold
Post(s): Professor of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... laser based techniques including H atom photofragment translat<b>ion</b>al spectroscopy and velocity map ion imaging. This work is now ...
Keywords: chemical vapour deposition | diamond films | pulsed laser ablation and deposition | plasma diagnostics | gas and solution phase photochemistry
 
  Professor David Ashton
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... interests include financial theory, corporate financial decis<b>ion</b>s and UK taxation. I am currently investigating models of equity ...
Keywords: financial theory | corporate financial decisions | finance | taxation | equity valuation | business finance
 
  Dr Will Atkinson
Post(s): Reader in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... inequality and difference associated with it in the realms of educat<b>ion</b>, work, social mobility, health, politics and lifestyles. I ...
Keywords: social class | class politics | class culture | educational inequalities | social mobility | inequality
 
  Dr Angela Attwood
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... the psychological and biological factors that underlie addict<b>ion</b>, craving and continued drug use. My recent research has included ...
Keywords: social drugs | drug-related stimuli | addiction | drug use | alcohol | social cognition | smoking | cognitive performance
 
  Dr Kenneth Austin
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... and cultural history of this period, and especially the connect<b>ion</b>s between the worlds of the Renaissance and the Reformation. ...
Keywords: European history | history | late medieval history | Renaissance | Reformation | Tremellius | European Reformation
 
  Professor Matthew Avison
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Bacteriology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... mechanisms in hospital "super-bugs". As editor for two internat<b>ion</b>al scientific journals during that time, I have developed a ...
Keywords: bacterial infection | antibiotic resistance | superbugs | hospital acquired infections
 
  Dr Sarah Ayres
Post(s): Reader in Public Policy and Governance, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... recent work has examined the informal aspects of political decis<b>ion</b> making by providing qualitative and interpretive descriptions ...
Keywords: public policy | governance | collaborative governance | territorial governance | decentralisation | inter-governmental relations | economic development and regeneration
 
  Dr Roland Baddeley
Post(s): Reader, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... Watt at Stirling University on statistical models of early vis<b>ion</b>. After post-docs in Cambridge Physiology dept (with Horace ...
Keywords: animal communication | Bayesian modelling | computer models in psychology | statistics of natural images | eye movements | memory | forgetting | motor learning
 
  Dr Andy Bailey
Post(s): Reader in Molecular Mycology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: General fungal biology Specific interests in: Fungi that cause plant/insect diseases. Molecular biology of mushrooms and...
Keywords: plant disease | fungi | biotechnology | mushrooms | crop protection
 
  Dr Jayne Bailey
Post(s): Clinical Academic Training Programme Manager, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... treatment of anxiety. This has led to the development and validat<b>ion</b> of the inhalation of 7.5% CO2 as a model of anxiety which produces ...
Keywords: anxiety | mental health | experimental models
 
  Dr Katherine Baldock
Post(s): NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... am a community ecologist, interested in plant-animal interact<b>ion</b>s. My research focuses primarily on plant-pollinator interactions ...
Keywords: pollination | bees | urban | food webs | networks | pollinators | flowers
 
  Dr Jon Balserak
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion and Theology
Areas of expertise: ... exegesis, theology and history of the Middle Ages and Reformat<b>ion</b>. I am interested in individuals like Denis the Carthusian, ...
Keywords: middle ages | exegesis | Reformation | biblical exegesis | medieval thought | biblical manuscripts
 
  Professor Jonathan Bamber
Post(s): Professor (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder), School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... of expertise is in satellite remote sensing of the polar reg<b>ion</b>s and, in particular, the great ice sheets of Antarctica and ...
Keywords: glaciology | climate change | satellite remote sensing | ice sheets | Antarctica | Greenland | Arctic
 
  Dr Jonathan Banks
Post(s): Research Fellow: Applied Social Science (Qualitative), Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: Since starting at the Divis<b>ion</b> of Primary Care I have completed a research project investigating ...
Keywords: pharmacy counter assistants | pharmacy | medicines | doctor appointments | Advanced Access | health | chronic fatigue syndrome
 
  Professor Stephen Bann
Post(s): Research Fellow in History of Art (Historical Studies), Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Emeritus Professor of History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... (especially curiosity and antiquarianism); Historical representat<b>ion</b> in painting and other visual media: nineteenth-century print ...
Keywords: museum history | curiosity | antiquarianism | historical representation | print culture | art criticism | avant-garde movements | land art
 
  Dr Ben Barber
Post(s): Heilbronn Research Fellow, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Discrete structures called graphs are used to model situat<b>ion</b>s where the connections between objects are more interesting ...
Keywords: combinatorics | discrete mathematics | Ramsey theory
 
  Dr Michele Barbour
Post(s): Reader in Biomaterials, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: ... primary research interests are the development, characterisat<b>ion</b> and application of antimicrobial and antifouling nanoparticles ...
Keywords: nanomaterials | nanoparticles | implants | biomaterials | teeth | nanotherapeutics | surface science | nanotechnology
 
  Professor Peter Barham
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... strong polymeric fibres. I have managed to combine my pass<b>ion</b> (some would say obsession) for penguins with my expertise in ...
Keywords: food science | molecular gastronomy | penguins | plastics | polymers | polymer science
 
  Dr Gary Barker
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery and gene express<b>ion</b> analysis in hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). This ...
Keywords: single nucleotide polymorphism (snp) | gene expression analysis in triticum eastivum | uk wheat genome sequencing consortium | ergot resistance in wheat | metagenomics | glacial ecosystems
 
  Dr Adrian Barnes
Post(s): Reader in Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... This involves the use of advanced X-ray and neutron diffract<b>ion</b> techniques, including anomalous X-ray scattering and neutron ...
Keywords: neutron and X-ray scattering | Glasses and liquids | levitation | Monte Carlo simulation | isotopic substitution | structure calculation | modelling | molecular dynamics
 
  Professor Sally Barnes
Post(s): Professor of Doctoral Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... scenarios. I originally came to Bristol to work on the acquisit<b>ion</b> of child language with the Language Development Project (directed ...
Keywords: learning process | technology | child language | language acquisition | impact of technology on the classroom | teaching process | computer supported collaborative learning | distance education
 
  Professor Paul Bartlett
Post(s): Professor of Soft Matter Science, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... particular on the structure and dynamics of colloidal suspens<b>ion</b>s. Soft Matter is the science of squishy materials such as as ...
Keywords: soft matter chemistry | soft condensed matter science of colloids and nanoparticles
 
  Dr David Barton
Post(s): Reader in Engineering Maths, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... mathematics, but I focus particularly on engineering related applicat<b>ion</b>s of nonlinear dynamics. My specialities include: - mathematical ...
Keywords: mathematical modelling | dynamics of nonlinear systems | systems with delay | numerical methods for dynamical systems
 
  Professor Zafar Bashir
Post(s): Professor of Cellular Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... of the brain communicate with one another at specialised junct<b>ion</b>s, called synapses, through the process of synaptic transmission. ...
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease | learning & memory | cellular neuroscience | recognition memory
 
  Professor Michael Basker
Post(s): Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Arts Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: ... literature, Pushkin, and nineteenth-century poetry. My many publicat<b>ion</b>s on the Acmeist poets Akhmatova and Gumilev make wide reference ...
Keywords: Silver Age literature | poetry | Pushkin | Gumilev | Russian symbolism | Russian poetry
 
  Professor Paul Bates
Post(s): Professor of Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... lies in the development of hydraulic models for flood predict<b>ion</b>, and the use of Remotely Sensed data to parameterise, calibrate ...
Keywords: floods | flood prediction | hydraulic modelling | hydrology modelling | uncertainty and risk | river basin management | environmental management | Cabot Institute
 
  Professor Mark Beach
Post(s): Professor of Radio Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... research activities are focused on system design and optimisat<b>ion</b> of wireless communication networks, with particular emphasis ...
Keywords: system design | wireless communication networks | 3G | 4G | smart antennas | dual array architectures
 
  Professor Mark Beaumont
Post(s): Professor of Statistics, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... interested in general problems of statistical inference in populat<b>ion</b> genetics, evolutionary biology, and conservation genetics. ...
Keywords: statistical inference in population genetics | statistical inference in evolutionary biology | statistical inference in conservation genetics | monte carlo statistical methods | detecting evidence of selection in the genome | modelling demographic history of populations; modelling temporally sampled genetic data | inference in structured populations | inference in agent-based models
 
  Professor Robin Bedford
Post(s): Professor of Catalysis, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... development of new catalysts and the catalysis of novel organic react<b>ion</b>s. This research lies at the interface of organic and inorganic ...
Keywords: new catalysts | the catalysis of novel organic reactions | novel organic reactions | organic chemistry | inorganic chemistry | catalyst development | organic reactions
 
  Dr Nazand Begikhani
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... directed groundbreaking research on many aspects of gender relat<b>ion</b>s, abuse and violence. My recent work includes honour-based ...
Keywords: honour-based violence | Iraqi Kurdistan | Kurdish community | Kurdish Women’s Action Against Honour Killing | honour killing | Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch | violence against women
 
  Dr Souheil Ben Smida
Post(s): Lecturer in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: I am a Research Associate in the Communicat<b>ion</b> Systems & Networks Group of the Centre for Communications Research ...
Keywords: RF passive and active circuits | power amplifiers | microwave instrumentation
 
  Professor Andrew Bennett
Post(s): Professor of English, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... ignorance in Romantic and post-Romantic literature. My other publicat<b>ion</b>s include books on twentieth-century writers (Elizabeth Bowen; ...
Keywords: Romanticism | twentieth-century and contemporary literature | literary theory
 
  Dr Christopher Benton
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I am interested in visual percept<b>ion</b>, in particular motion perception and face perception. I’ve ...
Keywords: visual perception | motion perception | face perception | motion processing mechanism | local motion | global motion | facial identity
 
  Professor Mike Benton
Post(s): Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My interests include the diversificat<b>ion</b> of life through time, quality of the fossil record, shapes ...
Keywords: diversification of life | Triassic ecosystem evolution | basal diapsid phylogeny | basal archosaurs | end-Permian mass extinction | tree of life | fossil records | vertebrate palaeontology
 
  Dr Oscar Berglund
Post(s): Senior Teaching Associate in Public Policy, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... (PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca), an anti-evict<b>ion</b> housing movement founded by the current Mayor of Barcelona, ...
Keywords: Anti-austerity | Austerity | social movements | housing | Catalonia | Spain | Civil Disobedience
 
  Professor Sir John Beringer
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Senior Team
Areas of expertise: ... molecular genetics, agricultural biotechnology, biosafety regulat<b>ion</b>s, public reaction to scientific advances.
Keywords: genetically modified organisms (GMOs) | agricultural microbiology | microbial ecology | John Innes Centre | GMO regulations
 
  Professor David Berridge
Post(s): Professor of Child & Family Welfare, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... and disturbing behaviour in residential care; and, in associat<b>ion</b> with the NSPCC, exploitation and violence in teenage dating ...
Keywords: child welfare | children in care | adolescence | residential care | foster care | institutional child abuse
 
  Dr Monica Berry
Post(s): Visiting Lecturer, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: I am fascinated by the complex interact<b>ion</b>s that occur in the tears and at the ocular surface. The preocular ...
Keywords: mucins | ocular surface | tears | in vitro toxicology
 
  Professor Lucy Berthoud
Post(s): Professor of Space Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Bristol and a PhD in Space Physics from Sup'Aero/ONERA (French Nat<b>ion</b>al Research Organisation). I worked at the European Space Agency ...
Keywords: Space | Spacecraft | Satellites | Planets | Mars | CubeSat | Interplanetary mission | Mission design
 
  Professor Christopher Bertram
Post(s): Professor in Social and Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... distributive justice. I'm currently working on justice in relat<b>ion</b> to territory and migration rights.
Keywords: political philosophy | Rousseau | history of political thought | inequality | global justice | migration | immigration | territorial rights
 
  Professor Lois Bibbings
Post(s): Professor of Law, Gender and History, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... sexuality, the body, cosmetic surgery, female genital alterat<b>ion</b> and women's rights as well as widening participation policy ...
Keywords: gender | (non)violence | sexuality | military | widening participation | history | masculinities | crime
 
  Professor Robert Bickers
Post(s): Professor of History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: My field is the modern history of China, and of the British empire. I have a particular interest in the social history of...
Keywords: Shanghai | China | British empire | colonial history | imperial history | Sino-British relations
 
  Dr Juliet Biggs
Post(s): Reader, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... continental tectonics and volcanic processes through observat<b>ion</b>s of aseismic processes such as interseismic strain accumulation, ...
Keywords: continental rifts | volcanoes | earthquake cycle | east african rift | active tectonic processes
 
  Professor Polly Bingley
Post(s): Professor of Diabetes, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and related autoimmune condit<b>ion</b>s, with a particular emphasis on the prediction and prevention ...
Keywords: type 1 diabetes | diabetes prevention | diabetes autoantibodies
 
  Dr Emily Blackwell
Post(s): Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: I am a senior lecturer in compan<b>ion</b> animal behaviour and welfare. I am certified as a Clinical ...
Keywords: dog behaviour | dogs | cat behaviour | cats | behaviour problems | pets | dog welfare | cat welfare
 
  Professor Pete Blair
Post(s): Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... expertise is in the field of SIDS. In particular the investigat<b>ion</b> of background characteristics and risk factors linked with ...
Keywords: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | cot death | epidemiology of SIDS | risk factors associated with SIDS
 
  Professor David Blockley
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... 'hard systems' risks that are embedded in human and organisat<b>ion</b>al 'soft system' risks. We need to do this to manage change ...
Keywords: systems thinking | engineering projects | hard systems | soft system | organisational 'silos'
 
  Professor Ashley Blom
Post(s): Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... adverse occurrence, development of novel treatments and provis<b>ion</b> of care. These programmes utilise a range of methodologies ...
Keywords: outcomes of arthroplasty | the safety of Orthopaedic implants | restitution of bone stock loss
 
  Professor Jon Blundy
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow in Petrology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research concerns the generat<b>ion</b>, movement and evolution of magma within the Earth. I use a ...
Keywords: magma | igneous petrology | geochemistry | volcanoes | magmatism | subduction zones | destructive plate boundaries
 
  Ms Nina Boeger
Post(s): Reader in Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... of Law in September 2004, I worked as a solicitor in internat<b>ion</b>al commercial law firms. I have been a researcher at the European ...
Keywords: comparative law | european union law | international commercial law | european union economic law
 
  Professor Ian Bond
Post(s): Head of School, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Aerospace Materials/Head of the Queen's School of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Self-Repair - Shaped Fibres, - Active Funct<b>ion</b>al Fibres (e.g. Magnetic, Self- Cooling, Triboluminescent, Magnetostrictive) Recycling ...
Keywords: smart materials | novel fibres | novel composites | fatigue of composites | recycling of composites
 
  Dr Mark Bond
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... mechanisms regulating vascular smooth muscle cell proliferat<b>ion</b>. In particular, we are interested in the role of extracellular ...
Keywords: molecular mechanisms | muscle cell proliferation | extracellular proteases | ECM remodelling | cell cycle regulator
 
  Professor Tim Bond
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Over twenty years experience as a practit<b>ion</b>er and academic with a specific interest in professional ethics ...
Keywords: counselling ethics | counselling legal issues | professional ethics | relational ethics | ethics | narrative approaches to research | limitations of ethical rules | qualitative research methods
 
  Dr Andrew Booker
Post(s): Reader of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... theory, more specifically on problems related to Galois representat<b>ion</b>s and the spectral theory of automorphic forms.
Keywords: algorithmic number theory | analytic number theory | galois representations | spectral theory of automorphic forms
 
  Professor Julian Booker
Post(s): Professor of Mechanical Design Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Design for X Product development process Probabilistic and robust design Design of novel electro-mechanical systems Experimental...
Keywords: design methods | engineering education | fatigue and fracture | renewable energy | actuation
 
  Dr Matthew Booker
Post(s): NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... urgent community care to prevent unnecessary hospital admiss<b>ion</b>s. I am using mixed-methods strategies to explore predictors ...
Keywords: prehospital care | ambulance | unplanned admissions | urgent care | primary care | emergency care | resuscitation | basic life support
 
  Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn
Post(s): Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: -Palladium (II) catalysed alkene funct<b>ion</b>alisation: Work in our group concerns the use of Pd (II) mediated ...
Keywords: palladium (ii) catalysed alkene functionalisation | synthetic organic photochemistry | total synthesis of natural products | laser mediated photochemistry
 
  Dr Humphrey Bourne
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Management and Faculty Education Director (PGT), Department of Management
Areas of expertise: My research interests focus on values in organisat<b>ion</b>s and include: organisational values, their development and ...
Keywords: values in organisations | organisational values | personal values | organisation values | role of values | decision-making | organisations
 
  Professor Jeffrey Bowers
Post(s): Professor, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... phenomenon called long-term priming, which refers to a facilitat<b>ion</b> (or cost) in responding quickly or accurately to a stimulus ...
Keywords: visual word recognition | speech production | connectionist modelling | word learning | word priming | visual word identification | psycholinguistics
 
  Professor Leo Brady
Post(s): Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... of a protein to another molecule. Understanding these interact<b>ion</b>s at the molecular level is the key to life itself, and provides ...
Keywords: biomolecular structures | protein structure | molecules | disease | protein crystallography | biomolecular interactions | molecular modelling
 
  Professor Malcolm Bremer
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: As an observat<b>ion</b>al cosmologist, I study how structure forms in the Universe. ...
Keywords: observational cosmology | universe | astronomy | galaxies | galaxy clusters
 
  Dr Peter Brennan
Post(s): Reader, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... detect non-volatile chemical signals, such as those in body secret<b>ion</b>s, scent marks or urine. It is a relatively simple, sub-neocortical ...
Keywords: vomeronasal system | chemosensory systems | non-volatile chemical signals | olfactory learning | smell | mammalian pheromones | mate recognition | accessory olfactory bulb
 
  Dr Jon Bridle
Post(s): Reader in Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research interests focus on populat<b>ion</b> and evolutionary genetics, particularly how maximum rates of ...
Keywords: evolutionary genetics | population genetics | adaptation | quantitative traits | climate change | adaptive divergence | assortative mating
 
  Dr Josie Briscoe
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... developmental disorders of memory and language. In collaborat<b>ion</b> with F. Khadem, P. Rankin and S. Gathercole, we have been exploring ...
Keywords: developmental disorders | language impairment | working memory | episodic memory | event memory | memory | children with communication deficits
 
  Dr Wuge Briscoe
Post(s): Reader in Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... readily modifying surface properties and mediating desired interact<b>ion</b>s between the solid surfaces. These molecular structures include, ...
Keywords: soft matter | polymers | surfactants | solid surfaces | molecular structures | surface properties | surface forces
 
  Professor Patricia Broadfoot
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: As an educat<b>ion</b>ist, I work in the field of assessment and its impact on teaching ...
Keywords: education | assessment | social science infrastructure and resources | education for sustainability | Cabot Institute
 
  Dr Grace Brockington
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... movements in the First World War developed into a study of internat<b>ion</b>alism at the fin de siècle, with a particular focus on cosmopolitan ...
Keywords: art | pacifism | war art | British art | peace movements | internationalism | culture | education
 
  Professor David Brookshaw
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: ... particular interest in themes related to the diasporic condit<b>ion</b>, such as the expression of exile, ethnicity and hybridity in ...
Keywords: literary discourses | diasporic condition | Literatures in Portuguese | Lusophone African literatures | literary translation | postcolonial literary discourses
 
  Dr Keith Brown
Post(s): Reader in Molecular Pathology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... aim of this project is to characterize genome-wide DNA methylat<b>ion</b> changes in clinically important childhood cancers such as Wilms’ ...
Keywords: molecular genetics | cancer | Wilms' tumour | neuroblastoma | epigenetics
 
  Ms Laurinda Brown
Post(s): Reader in Mathematics Teacher Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Mathematics educat<b>ion</b>, effective mathematics teaching and learning, complex decision-making ...
Keywords: mathematics education | mathematics | teaching | learning | complex decision-making | intuition | cognition | mathematics teaching
 
  Professor Malcolm Brown
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... particularly interested in the neural substrates of recognit<b>ion</b> memory. Differences in neuronal activity are detected electrophysiologically ...
Keywords: neural processes | memory | learning | neural substrates | recognition memory | neuronal activity
 
  Professor William Browne
Post(s): Professor of Statistics, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... analysis of data in the fields of veterinary epidemiology, educat<b>ion</b>, health, public health and bird ecology.
Keywords: Bayesian statistics | multilevel modelling | complex random effect modelling | applied statistics | veterinary epidemiology | public health | bird ecology
 
  Professor Tim Browning
Post(s): Professor in Number Theory, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Interface of analytic number theory and Diophantine geometry
Keywords: number theory | Diophantine equations
 
  Professor Jeff Brunstrom
Post(s): Professor of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... experimental psychologist with an interest in ‘behavioural nutrit<b>ion</b>.’ Broadly, this incorporates decisions and behaviours associated ...
Keywords: diet | food choice | obesity | overeating | nutrition | dietary learning | appetite | portion size
 
  Professor Judith Bryce
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Italian, Department of Italian
Emeritus Professor, Department of Italian
Areas of expertise: ... politics of Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-92), and epistolary relat<b>ion</b>s between Lorenzo and Ippolita Sforza, Duchess of Calabria. ...
Keywords: culture | Florentine cultural history | Italian literature | Florence | gender | women
 
  Professor George Bulkley
Post(s): Professor of Financial Economics, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... interested in behavioural finance and distinguishing between rat<b>ion</b>al learning and behavioural explanations of puzzles in equity ...
Keywords: asset markets | behavioural finance | interest rates
 
  Professor David Bull
Post(s): Professor of Signal Processing, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Signal Processing activities within the Centre for Communicat<b>ion</b>s Research where I am Deputy Director. I have sat on the ...
Keywords: image and video coding | image analysis | signal processing | image and video communications
 
  Dr Ian Bull
Post(s): Research Fellow in Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... history of soils and neutralise or prevent the effects of pollut<b>ion</b> in the natural environment. Much progress in these areas has ...
Keywords: soil organic matter | soil environment | pollution | analytical methodologies | stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry | soil
 
  Dr Martin Bunnage
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: Clinical Neuropsychology Brain Injury Head Injury Medicolegal Court
Keywords: clinical neuropsychology | human neuropsychology | brain injury | head injury | neuropsychology of functional neurosurgery | neuropsychology
 
  Professor Simon Burgess
Post(s): Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... within an economics framework on poverty, unemployment, educat<b>ion</b>, incentives in the public sector, and local area effects.
Keywords: poverty | unemployment | public sector incentives | area effects | education outcomes
 
  Dr Tilo Burghardt
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: Dr Tilo Burghardt's research focuses on applied computer vis<b>ion</b> and animal biometrics. His interests include the robust visual ...
Keywords: Animal Biometrics | computer vision | pattern recognition | Deep Learning | intelligent systems | Autonomous Robotics
 
  Professor Jonathan Burnside
Post(s): Professor of Biblical Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... England and Wales). My work also covers restorative and relat<b>ion</b>al justice.
Keywords: Kainos community | religious-based therapeutic communities in prison | restorative justice | relational justice
 
  Dr Steve Burrow
Post(s): Reader in Aircraft Systems, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... electrical machines and sensing systems for wide range of applicat<b>ion</b>s including the ‘More Electric Aircraft’, energy harvesting, ...
Keywords: energy management | coupled mechanical / electrical systems | power electronics | electrical machines | energy harvesting | renewable energy | sensing systems
 
  Dr Steven Burston
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... folding of this string of amino acids into a unique three-dimens<b>ion</b>al shape which gives proteins their ability to function. My ...
Keywords: protein folding | molecular chaperones | molecular motors
 
  Dr Andrew Butterworth
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Farm Animal Science
Reader in Animal Science and Policy, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: ... Scotland and in Berkshire where I carried out farm and compan<b>ion</b> animal clinical work, and wildlife clinical work related to ...
Keywords: welfare assessment methods | broiler chicken pathology, disease and welfare | wild mammal management | veterinary ethics and law
 
  Professor Craig Butts
Post(s): Professor of Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... based around elucidating organic molecular structure and react<b>ion</b> mechanism, principally using NMR spectroscopy - the most information-rich ...
Keywords: NMR spectroscopy | molecular structure | molecules | physical organic chemistry
 
  Professor Richard Buxton
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Humanities, School of Humanities
Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... literature (especially tragedy), and ancient mythology and relig<b>ion</b>. One of my main aims is to explore the contexts – for example, ...
Keywords: ancient Greek literature | literature | ancient mythology | religion | myths | mythology
 
  Dr Christie Cabral
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... in the fields of primary health care, social care and internat<b>ion</b>al development. I have particular experience of research ...
Keywords: primary care | antibiotics | evidence based approach | poverty and social exclusion | international development
 
  Professor David Cahill
Post(s): Professor in Medical Education and Reproductive Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... interests in endometriosis, ovarian endocrinology and ovulat<b>ion</b> induction, as well as broader interests in the management of ...
Keywords: endometriosis | ovarian endocrinology | ovulation induction | infertility | reproductive medicine | miscarriage | psychosexual problems | hormonal disorders
 
  Dr Deborah Caldwell
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Public Health Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: My current research interests are the applicat<b>ion</b> of network meta-analyses within the areas of obstetrics and ...
Keywords: mixed treatment comparisons | comparing multiple interventions | network meta-analysis | indirect comparisons | meta-analysis | evidence synthesis | health techonology assessment | Cochrane Collaboration
 
  Dr Mihai Caleap
Post(s): Research Fellow & RAEng Enterprise Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Scattering; Diffract<b>ion</b> and propagation of waves; Multiple scattering problems in ...
Keywords: acoustics | mechanics | geophysics | applied mathematics
 
  Dr Andrew Calway
Post(s): Reader in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: I carry out research in computer vis<b>ion</b> and image processing: designing algorithms to automatically ...
Keywords: computer vision | image processing | motion and tracking | image and video compression
 
  Ms Ailsa Cameron
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in School for Policy Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... Tropical Medicine on a Department of Health funded project, "Evaluat<b>ion</b> of Community Foundation Trusts". I am also part of the ESRC ...
Keywords: health and social care | community foundation trusts | dignity in later life | health care | social care | health of Travellers
 
  Dr Vyllinniskii Cameron
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... biogeochemistry. The focus of my work involves understanding the interact<b>ion</b>s, utilisation and impacts between trace metals and the microbial ...
Keywords: astrobiology | biogeochemistry | geochemistry | trace metals | microorganisms | biosignatures | extreme environments | origin of life
 
  Dr Neill Campbell
Post(s): Reader, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: I am a member of the Visual Informat<b>ion</b> Laboratory and BRL Bristol Robotics Laboratory research groups.
Keywords: computer animation | computer vision
 
  Professor Nishan Canagarajah
Post(s): Pro Vice-Chancellor, Senior Team
Areas of expertise: ... coding, content-based multimedia processing and the applicat<b>ion</b> of signal processing to wireless, audio and medical electronics. ...
Keywords: signal processing | image and video compression | multimedia processing | signal separation
 
  Professor Edmund Cannon
Post(s): Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... development. More specifically I have done research on productivity, reg<b>ion</b>al growth rates, the rôle of financial markets, agricultural ...
Keywords: macroeconomics | financial markets | agricultural history | demographic change | pensions | annuity market
 
  Professor Patrick Capps
Post(s): Professor of International Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... research on the philosophy, history and sociology of public internat<b>ion</b>al law. My substantive focus is on state jurisdiction, responsibility, ...
Keywords: Public International Law | History of International Law | sociology of international law | Philosophy of International Law | Jurisprudence
 
  Professor Massimo Caputo
Post(s): Professor of Congenital Heart Surgery, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... focuses on the development of techniques of myocardial protect<b>ion</b> in adult and paediatric surgery. My research involving basic ...
Keywords: myocardial protection | ischaemia | reperfusion injury | heart surgery | pump coronary surgery
 
  Professor John Carpenter
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research for the Department of Health and the NHS on de-institut<b>ion</b>alisation, community mental health services, interprofessional ...
Keywords: de-institutionalisation | community mental health services | mental health | interprofessional education | family support services | disabled children | Sure Start
 
  Professor Antony Carrington
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... with clear and substantial commercial and technological applicat<b>ion</b>s. However, the underlying theme of my own research is to perform ...
Keywords: superconductivity | condensed matter | novel superconductors | electronic structure
 
  Dr Kirsten Cater
Post(s): Academic Director, Centre for Innovation
Reader in Human Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: I have worked, managed and published internat<b>ion</b>ally in a broad range of research areas including human computer ...
Keywords: human computer interaction | mobile and ubiquitous computing | computer graphics | context aware applications | pervasive computing
 
  Dr Fernando Cervantes
Post(s): Reader in History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... the project: a co-authored monograph, and a co-edited collect<b>ion</b> of essays entitled Angels, Demons and the New World, to be ...
Keywords: Spain | Spanish America | Hispanic world | literary imagination | Montaigne | Cervantes | Shakespeare | humanism
 
  Dr Katy Chalmers
Post(s): Senior Research Associate in Outcome Methods for Randomised Controlled Trials, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... these tangles interfere with important brain cell survival funct<b>ion</b>s which are vital for the cells' survival.
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease | dementia | brain | amyloid | cerebral amyloid angiopathy | neurofibrillary tangles | tau | plaque
 
  Professor Alan Champneys
Post(s): Professor of Applied Non-linear Mathematics, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos and its applicat<b>ion</b>, particularly to engineering systems. Bifurcation theory, ...
Keywords: chaos | resonance | localisation | nonlinear dynamics | solitary wave | dynamics of impact | engineering instability | buckling
 
  Professor Andrew Charlesworth
Post(s): Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... Intellectual Property law (e.g., copyright, trademark, patent), Informat<b>ion</b> Technology law (e.g. computer misuse, data protection) and ...
Keywords: data protection | privacy law | intellectual property | internet law | computer misuse
 
  Dr Jonathan Charmant
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... compounds by analysing solid state structure using X-rays or computat<b>ion</b>al modelling. Our research also encompasses 'Crystal Engineering' ...
Keywords: x-ray crystallography | structural chemistry | Crystal Engineering | structural systematics | computational chemistry
 
  Dr Katharine Charsley
Post(s): Reader in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... principle research interests are in gender, the family, and migrat<b>ion</b>, particularly in the field of cross-border marriages. I have ...
Keywords: gender | the family | migration | graduate migration | transnational marriages | ethnicity | transnationalism
 
  Dr Stephen Cheeke
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... interest is in nineteenth century literature, and my publicat<b>ion</b>s in that field have previously been on Shelley and Byron [Byron ...
Keywords: nineteenth century literature | relations between literature and art (painting, sculpture & photography) | coleridge, robert browning | keats, shelley | hazlitt, byron | de quincey | d. g. rossetti | pre-raphaelitism
 
  Dr Isaac Chenchiah
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... been a research interest of mine. I have studied their evolut<b>ion</b> (in superalloys), equilibrium microstructures (in martensites) ...
Keywords: molecular and tissue biomechanics | bistable structures | microstructures in solids | phase transitions | elasticity | damage in solids | partial differential equations | calculus of variations
 
  Professor David Cherns
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physics
Senior Research Fellow in Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: My interests lie in the applicat<b>ion</b> of novel electron microscopy techniques to the analysis of ...
Keywords: electron microscopy techniques | semiconductors | convergent beam electron diffraction | electron holography | piezoelectric fields | cathodoluminescence | GaN | ZnO
 
  Dr Rajendra Chitnis
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian
Areas of expertise: ... literature, with a particular focus on post-Soviet Russian fict<b>ion</b> and twentieth-century Czech literature. I also teach courses ...
Keywords: Czech literature | Post-Soviet Russian literature | Russian literature since the 1960s | Czech history and culture | Czech current affairs | Slovak literature
 
  Dr Ryerson Christie
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My main research interests focus on the applicat<b>ion</b> of critical security studies to the analysis of human security ...
Keywords: critical security studies | human security | peacebuilding | NGOs | Cambodia | state-civil society interaction | Cambodian politics
 
  Professor Michelle Cini
Post(s): Head of School, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Professor of European Politics and Head of School, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: Politics, European Un<b>ion</b> Politics, European Commission, Malta-EU relations, European ...
Keywords: politics | European Union | Malta | competition policy | European Commission
 
  Professor Gillian Clark
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Classics & Ancient History, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: My research field is the relat<b>ion</b>ship of inherited classical culture and late antique Christianity. ...
Keywords: classical culture | Christianity | Augustine | Porphyry | Iamblichus | gender | Augustine City of God
 
  Dr Paul Clarke
Post(s): Lecturer in Performance Studies, Department of Theatre
Areas of expertise: ... research, which take place in parallel and in ongoing communicat<b>ion</b>; thinking through performance and discursive publication or ...
Keywords: thinking through performance | discursive publication | Uninvited Guests | performance | memories of movies | archives
 
  Dr Alex Clayton
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: ... sound eras, considering key instances of the genre as meditat<b>ion</b>s on the place and nature of the human body (in relation to ...
Keywords: Hollywood | physical comedy | film music | writing about film | aesthetics | history of screen comedy | narrative cinema | film criticism
 
  Professor Dick Clements
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... physical lengths of rope. Topics of interest include the classificat<b>ion</b> of knots, assessment of the strength and security of knots, ...
Keywords: knots and ropework
 
  Professor Dave Cliff
Post(s): Professor of Computer Science/Academic Director for TQC, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: My primary area of expertise is computer systems for trading in financial markets. In 1996 I designed an automated trading...
Keywords: large-scale complex IT systems | financial markets | automated trading | complex systems | evolutionary systems | cognitive systems | artificial intelligence
 
  Professor Peter Coates
Post(s): Professor of American and Environmental History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... history, especially environmental history (the study of human relat<b>ion</b>s with the rest of the natural world over time). My interest ...
Keywords: American history | United States history | environmental history | rivers | militarized landscapes
 
  Dr Ruth Coates
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian
Areas of expertise: ... Russian thought. I have edited a book entitled The Emancipat<b>ion</b> of Russian Christianity, and I am the author of Christianity ...
Keywords: Russian literature | intellectual history | Russia | Russian thought | Orthodox culture | Christianity | Russian Christianity
 
  Dr Christopher Coath
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I study the evolut<b>ion</b> of the early solar system. Isotopic characterisation of primitive ...
Keywords: evolution | early solar system | solar system | meteorites | proto-solar nebula
 
  Dr Tristan Cogan
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Veterinary Pathology and Infection and Immunity
Areas of expertise: ... of Bristol was in Public Health researching bacterial infect<b>ion</b>s, particularly food poisoning. I currently actively research ...
Keywords: Campylobacter | Salmonella | infection | microbiology | zoonotic disease | food poisoning | diagnostics
 
  Dr Alf Coles
Post(s): Reader in Mathematics Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... with video; the impact of competency-based curriculum innovat<b>ion</b>. Biography I came to the University after fifteen years ...
Keywords: mathematics | listening and hearing | classroom cultures | teacher development | competency-based curriculum innovation | curriculum innovation | teaching | mathematics teaching
 
  Miss Tracey Collard
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: Colorectal tumour cell survival mechanisms and chemoprevent<b>ion</b>. -BAG-1 as a regulator of transcription in colorectal carcinogenesis. -The ...
Keywords: colorectal tumour cell survival mechanisms | chemoprevention
 
  Professor Graham Collingridge
Post(s): Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... this property is used by the nervous system to store informat<b>ion</b>. Synaptic plasticity is therefore a fundamental property of ...
Keywords: synaptic mechanisms | synaptic plasticity | mammals | central nervous system | synapses
 
  Professor Sean Collins
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... cover a variety of themes in the area of stochastic optimisat<b>ion</b>, including the theory of Markov decision processes, game theory ...
Keywords: optimisation under uncertainty | behavioural biology | applied probability | stochastic optimisation | game theory | reinforcement learning | behavioural ecology
 
  Professor Ian Collinson
Post(s): Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... I lead, concerns the underlying mechanisms of protein secret<b>ion</b> and membrane protein insertion. The process we study is fundamental ...
Keywords: protein | protein secretion | membrane protein insertion | protein translocation reaction | membrane proteins | biophysics
 
  Professor Ashley Cooper
Post(s): Professor of Physical Activity & Public Health, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... physical activity and I have a particular interest in the contribut<b>ion</b> of active travel to school to children’s physical activity ...
Keywords: physical activity | active travel | children's fitness
 
  Dr Tony Corfield
Post(s): Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: We are studying the defensive funct<b>ion</b>s of the mucosal barrier in the gastrointestinal and female ...
Keywords: mucosal barrier | mucosal surfaces | diseases | microflora | glycobiology
 
  Dr David Cottrell
Post(s): Senior Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Sciences, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... clinic for patients with MS and secured funding for an addit<b>ion</b>al MS nurse and secretary and have received both ethical approval ...
Keywords: neurology | multiple sclerosis | headache | epilepsy
 
  Professor David Cowan
Post(s): Professor of Law and Policy, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Nuffield Foundat<b>ion</b>, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. I am a Visiting Academic ...
Keywords: homelessness | housing law | social housing | private rented sector | judging | human rights
 
  Professor Richard Coward
Post(s): Professor of Renal Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... podocyte and the effects of insulin on the glomerular filtrat<b>ion</b> barrier of the kidney. I am currently investigating the effects ...
Keywords: nephrology | paediatrics | children | molecular biology | human podocyte | Insulin | kidneys | glomerular cells
 
  Professor Ian Craddock
Post(s): Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University Lead on Digital Health, Senior Team
Areas of expertise: -Member of the Computat<b>ion</b>al Electromagnetics Group within the Centre of Communication ...
Keywords: computational electromagnetics group | centre of communication research | fdtd | conformal antenna arrays | radar | buried plastic landmines
 
  Dr Helen Cramer
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... at a brief group cognitive behavioural therapy based intervent<b>ion</b> for women with mild to moderate depression from deprived areas ...
Keywords: | pharmacies | medicines | cognitive behavioural therapy | depression | respite care | body image
 
  Dr Edward Crane
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Complex analysis (specifically geometric funct<b>ion</b> theory), probability, dynamical systems.
Keywords: analysis & partial differential equations | ergodic theory & dynamical systems | geometric function theory | circle parkings | holomorphic dynamics | discrete probability | two-dimensional statistical mechanics
 
  Professor Esther Crawley
Post(s): Professor of Child Health, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... by screening are different to those referred for rehabilitat<b>ion</b> by health services. Memory and concentration problems in ...
Keywords: epidemiology | children | fatigue | CFS | ME | concentration | anxiety
 
  Dr Sam Creavin
Post(s): Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... investigate ways to support GPs to make patient-centred decis<b>ion</b>s about diagnosis and what to do next when a patient presents ...
Keywords: dementia | general practice | diagnosis
 
  Dr Adam Crewe
Post(s): Reader in Earthquake Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... laboratory testing techniques (eg. shaking table testing and react<b>ion</b> wall testing) which produce the data with which to validate ...
Keywords: earthquake engineering | long span bridges | vibrations and dynamics | full scale testing | shaking table modelling | shaking table control systems | vibration resistant design | large scale laboratory testing
 
  Dr John Crosby
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... use of a broad range of techniques including protein express<b>ion</b> and purification, enzyme kinetics, and the accurate mass analysis ...
Keywords: protein structure | Protein mass spectrometry | enzymes | secondary metabolism | proteins | enzyme kinetics | polyketide biosynthesis
 
  Professor Michael Crossley
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... scholarship on the future of the field of comparative and internat<b>ion</b>al education; research and evaluation capacity and international ...
Keywords: theoretical scholarship | methodological scholarship | comparative education | international education | international development co-operation | educational development | specialist education in small states
 
  Dr Jo Crow
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: My research interests include Chilean cultural history, nat<b>ion</b>alism and nation building, and Mapuche history, intellectuality ...
Keywords: chilean cultural history | chilean nationalism | Peruvian nationalism | nation building | mapuche history | intellectuality & politics | indigenous history
 
  Professor Anthony Croxford
Post(s): Professor of Ultrasonics and Dynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Guided wave structural health monitoring; defect classificat<b>ion</b> and quantification using ultrasound; dynamics and control of ...
Keywords: structures | dynamics
 
  Professor Matthew Crump
Post(s): Professor of NMR and Structural Biology, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: I am currently studying protein structure and funct<b>ion</b> using principally NMR spectroscopy. My main interest is the ...
Keywords: proteins | protein structure | protein function | NMR spectroscopy | cancer | cancer related proteins | polyketide synthase enzymes
 
  Professor Martin Cryan
Post(s): Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the fabricat<b>ion</b>, modelling and measurement of nanophotonic devices for applications ...
Keywords: Nanophotonics | electromagnetics | Nanofabrication | Radio-over-fibre
 
  Professor Pete Cullen
Post(s): Professor of Biochemistry (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder), School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... established that these lipids, which differ solely in the phosphorylat<b>ion</b> status of their inositol head group, are crucial components ...
Keywords: phosphoinositides | cell signalling | lipids | endosome | retromer | cancer
 
  Professor Innes Cuthill
Post(s): Professor of Behavioural Ecology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... behavioural ecology, my research interests span physiology to populat<b>ion</b> ecology. This is inevitable, as behaviour evolves in response ...
Keywords: behavioural ecology | sensory ecology | animal behaviour | camouflage | animal vision | animal coloration
 
  Professor Gavin D'Costa
Post(s): Professor in Catholic Theology, Department of Religion and Theology
Areas of expertise: Christian relat<b>ion</b>s with other religions. Christianity and gender issues. Modern ...
Keywords: Christianity | modern period | religion | gender | psychoanalysis | Roman Catholicism
 
  Professor Roger Dale
Post(s): Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: My research interests include; globalisat<b>ion</b>; Europeanisation and the governance of education; education ...
Keywords: globalisation | Europeanisation and the governance of education | education policy | critical policy methodology | international organizations | education systems | role of regional organisations | EU and education policy
 
  Mr Colin Dalton
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... undergraduate and postgraduate level in computer graphics and animat<b>ion</b>. My research interests centre around the development of techniques ...
Keywords: graphics | interaction and graphics | visual information laboratory | brl bristol robotics library
 
  Professor Markus Damian
Post(s): Professor of Psychology of Language, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... investigate the way in which humans cognitively develop intent<b>ion</b>s of what they are trying to say, the way in which words are ...
Keywords: language production | speaking | psycholinguistics | visual word recognition | computational models of language | unconscious processing | numerical cognition
 
  Dr Andrew Davidson
Post(s): Reader in Systems Virology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... viruses including, dengue, MERS-CoV and 2019-nCoV. The identificat<b>ion</b> of biomarkers to predict dengue disease severity.
Keywords: dengue | flavivirus | virology | SARS | coronavirus | RNA virus | MERS-coronavirus | 2019-nCoV
 
  Dr Dawn Davies
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... recapitulated following damage, in order to promote regenerat<b>ion</b>. The inner ear has been described as ‘one of the most remarkable ...
Keywords: sensory hair cells | inner ear | ear | balance deficit | hearing deficit | epithelial cells | cell fate | extracellular environment
 
  Dr Simon Davies
Post(s): Clinical Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... affective disorders, with particular reference to the associat<b>ion</b> of hypertension and cardiovascular disease with panic, anxiety ...
Keywords: anxiety | hypertension | cardiovascular disease | depression | drug side effects | toxicity
 
  Dr Steffan Davies
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in German, Department of German
Areas of expertise: ... history. I have published on Schiller and Goethe, on percept<b>ion</b>s of the Thirty Years War in the 'long nineteenth century' (1790-1920), ...
Keywords: Friedrich Schiller | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Alfred Döblin | German literature | German history | historiography | exile
 
  Professor Anthony Davis
Post(s): Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... interests include; supramolecular Chemistry, carbohydrate recognit<b>ion</b>, anion recognition and transport; crystal engineering, computer-aided ...
Keywords: Supramolecular Chemistry | carbohydrate recognition | anion recognition and transport | Crystal Engineering | Computer-Aided Molecular Design
 
  Dr Sean Davis
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... 'Templated assembly of nanoparticles' and 'spontaneous format<b>ion</b> of macroporous ceramics'. I. 'Templated assembly of nanoparticles': ...
Keywords: inorganic and materials chemistry | templated assembly of nanoparticles | spontaneous formation of macroporous ceramics
 
  Dr Lesel Dawson
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... also published articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan success<b>ion</b> crisis, and early modern ideas about menstruation. I am also ...
Keywords: English literature | lovesickness | gender | literature and medicine | revenge tragedy | Shakespeare | Thomas Middleton | John Ford
 
  Dr Leandro De Magalhaes
Post(s): Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: My research includes papers on Brazilian politics, the relat<b>ion</b> between the tax level and party ideology in the US states, ...
Keywords: public economics | applied econometrics | political economics
 
  Dr Zuzana Deans
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: My research interests lie mostly in the interact<b>ion</b> between philosophy and empirical research, with particular ...
Keywords: professionalism | conscientious objections | pharmacy practice | ethics | pre-natal screening
 
  Professor Rosemary Deem
Post(s): Visiting Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: The management, leadership and governance of educat<b>ion</b>al institutions, especially universities; gender and management ...
Keywords: management | gendered education | leisure | governance | education policy
 
  Dr Christopher Dempsey
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: My main research interest is membrane insert<b>ion</b> of proteins and antibiotic peptides: The insertion of polypeptides ...
Keywords: antimicrobial peptides | membrane biophysics | modelling membrane ion channel proteins | hERG voltage sensitive ion channel | biological spectroscopy | solute effects on protein stability | molecular interactions | peptide design
 
  Professor Esther Dermott
Post(s): Professor and Head of School, School for Policy Studies
Head of School, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: How fathers combine paid employment and family life; expectat<b>ion</b>s of work and fatherhood and the balancing of desires and demands; ...
Keywords: fathers | fatherhood | work/life balance | family | work/employment | gender | family friendly policies | intimacy
 
  Professor Carl Dettmann
Post(s): Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... of matter are derived from forces between molecules. Connect<b>ion</b>s between statistical mechanics and chaos. Computer simulation ...
Keywords: chaos | fractals | mathematical billiards | relativity | statistical physics | wireless networks
 
  Dr John-David Dewsbury
Post(s): Reader in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... the event and materiality. Performativity: My interpretat<b>ion</b> of the work performativity is stretched across the linguistic ...
Keywords: performativity | politics of the event | belief | materiality | performance art | knowledge | intuition
 
  Professor Mario Di Bernardo
Post(s): Professor of Nonlinear Systems and Control, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: My expertise is in the broad area of mathematical modelling, nonlinear dynamics and chaos and control theory.
Keywords: nonlinear systems | control and optimization | bifurcations and chaos | networks
 
  Dr Dario Di Maio
Post(s): Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... methods. One output of the thesis was the development and product<b>ion</b> of a software platform called CAISER MYMESIS capable of performing ...
Keywords: development of tracking measurements of rotating bladed disc | continuous scanning ldv methods | caiser mymesis | vibration measurements of rotating bladed disc | blade tip timing system | scanning ldv system
 
  Dr Andrea Diambra
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... constitutive models for both natural and reinforced soil and implemetat<b>ion</b> in FE code - fibre reinforced soil - crushing of natural ...
Keywords: geotechnical engineering | soil reinforcement | fibre reinforced soil | constitutive modelling for soils | soil liquefaction | pile-soil interaction | crushing of natural soil
 
  Professor Andrew Dick
Post(s): Professor of Ophthalmology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Professor of Ophthalmology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... work focuses on how the retina responds to injury, inflammat<b>ion</b> and degeneration. This covers areas which include: -The ...
Keywords: autoimmunity | retinal neural progenitor cell research | graft rejection | macrophages | microglia | uveitis | Retinal disease
 
  Dr Luiza Dihoru
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... particle packing, rheological behaviour of powder mixtures, inject<b>ion</b> moulding of particulate materials, sintering behaviour of granular ...
Keywords: geomechanics | dynamics and control
 
  Professor Mark Dillingham
Post(s): Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... component single strands in an ATP-dependent manner. They are except<b>ion</b>ally abundant enzymes and constitute about 1% of the proteome. ...
Keywords: helicases | proteins | motor proteins | duplex nucleic acids
 
  Dr Filippo Dionigi
Post(s): Lecturer in Politics/International Relations, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: Scholar of Internat<b>ion</b>al Relations with regional expertise on the Middle East and ...
Keywords: Middle East | Lebanon | Syrian Refugees | Hezbollah
 
  Professor Richard Dixon
Post(s): Emeritus Professor in Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: My research involves the development and applicat<b>ion</b> of optical spectroscopy to Chemistry, and in particular the ...
Keywords: optical spectroscopy | complex molecular dynamics | laser based techniques | quantum chemistry | time-dependent quantum theory | photodissociation dynamics | polyatomic radicals | atmospheric/combustion chemistry
 
  Dr Andrew Doherty
Post(s): Teaching Fellow, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... mGlu receptors. We also looked at the mechanism of internalisat<b>ion</b> of mGlu1 receptors. I am now the Senior Scientific Officer ...
Keywords: brain | neuroscience | synapses | glutamate | synaptic plasticity
 
  Professor Philip Donoghue
Post(s): Professor of Palaeobiology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research is focused on the relat<b>ion</b>ship between evolution and embryology, integrating living and ...
Keywords: evolution | embryology | fossils | living organisms | fossil organisms | ecdysozoans | vertebrates
 
  Professor Jenny Donovan
Post(s): Professor of Social Medicine, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... and health care and the acceptability of healthcare intervent<b>ion</b>s. I run a large programme of research in prostate cancer, ...
Keywords: prostate cancer | health services | arthritis | lay beliefs | qualitative research
 
  Dr Kevin Doogan
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in School for Policy Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... European Policy Studies. I work within the broad area of institut<b>ion</b>al restructuring and labour market change in the UK, Europe ...
Keywords: institutional restructuring | labour market change | European labour markets | employee insecurity | labour market stability
 
  Professor Angela Doufexi
Post(s): Professor of Wireless Networks, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... wireless LANs (PHY and MAC), space time coding and MIMO, 4th generat<b>ion</b> communications systems, multimedia transmission. I have published ...
Keywords: advanced wireless communications | wireless networks | WLANs | space-time coding | multimedia transmission | cross layer optimisation | opportunistic scheduling
 
  Professor William Doyle
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Historical Studies (History), Department of History (Historical Studies)
Emeritus Professor of History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... century. Special areas include nobles, the sale of offices, relig<b>ion</b> and the Enlightenment.
Keywords: France | French history | European history | old regime | revolution | Napoleon | Enlightenment
 
  Dr James Drewitt
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... structure and properties of liquids and glasses under extreme condit<b>ion</b>s and deep earth mineral physics. I make experimental measurements ...
Keywords: Pressure | Glass | liquids | diffraction | Synchrotron | Neutron | levitation | simulations
 
  Professor Bruce Drinkwater
Post(s): Professor of Ultrasonics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Evaluat<b>ion</b> (NDE) using ultrasound (or ultrasonics). This includes crack ...
Keywords: ultrasound | non-destructive testing | non-destructive evaluation | wave propagation | mechanical engineering | tribology | sensors | ultrasonics
 
  Professor Mark Duffield
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... 'catastrophe politics'. Past research focused on liberal intervent<b>ion</b>ism, especially its humanitarian, human security and peace dimensions, ...
Keywords: liberal interventionism | development and security | security | development | internal war | humanitarian crisis | Sudan
 
  Professor Stephen Dugdale
Post(s): Professor of Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... the antimatter partners of electrons) and measuring the radiat<b>ion</b> that is produced. It is then possible to compare experimental ...
Keywords: positron annihilation | momentum density | Fermi surface
 
  Dr Sarah Eagle
Post(s): Senior Teaching Associate, School of Education
Research Associate, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... STELLAR, which represents the effort of the leading institut<b>ion</b>s and projects in European Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) ...
Keywords: learning in informal settings | digital technologies in teaching & learning | socio-cultural perspectives | computer supported collaborative learning | emergent literacy | early years | digital literacies
 
  Professor Julian Eastoe
Post(s): Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: My research on colloid and interface science and applicat<b>ion</b>s of neutron scattering is well-known internationally. I am ...
Keywords: colloid & interface science | neutron scattering | surfactants for dispersions in low density & supercritical fluids | general surface area and interface science | novel sufactants | polymers
 
  Professor Kerstin Eder
Post(s): Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: I have established Design Automat<b>ion</b> and Verification as a research and teaching area of international ...
Keywords: verification, validation and test | design automation and verification | formal verification and specification | energy aware computing | energy efficient computing | robotics | autonomous systems safety and trust
 
  Professor Timothy Edmunds
Post(s): Professor of International Security, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... capacity building. I am author or editor of over 90 publicat<b>ion</b>s on these themes, including 14 books and special issues. These ...
Keywords: Maritime security | Ocean governance | Capacity building | security sector reform | Security strategies | Maritime crime | Fisheries protection | Marine protected areas
 
  Professor Keith Edwards
Post(s): Professor of Cereal Functional Genomics, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... performance, particularly in cereals and brassicas. My investigat<b>ion</b>s have focussed on the development of refined molecular marker ...
Keywords: genomics based technologies | plant genes | crop performance | embryogenesis | germination | disease resistance | marker-assisted breeding
 
  Professor Jens Eggers
Post(s): Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... phenomena are characterised by the underlying (hydrodynamic) equat<b>ion</b>s becoming singular. The structure of singular solutions is ...
Keywords: nonlinear flows | formation of drops | singularities | industrial processes | modelling
 
  Professor Mark Eisler
Post(s): Chair in Global Farm Animal Health, Farm Animal Science
Areas of expertise: Internat<b>ion</b>al Animal Health/Tropical Veterinary Medicine Epidemiology ...
Keywords: One Health | infectious diseases | tropical veterinary medicine | epidemiology | parasitology | livestock | Cabot Institute | food security
 
  Professor Tim Elliott
Post(s): Professor, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on the chemical evolut<b>ion</b> of the Earth. As such I am interested in planetary formation ...
Keywords: chemical evolution of the Earth | planetary formation | planetary differentiation | terrestrial environment | measurements of novel isotopic systems | plasma mass-spectrometry
 
  Dr Matthew Ellis
Post(s): Consultant Senior Lecturer in Global Child Health, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... out a randomised controlled trial of community based resuscitat<b>ion</b> for newborns who do not breathe at birth in association with ...
Keywords: resuscitation | newborns | perinatal adversity | maternal health | child health
 
  Professor Sheila Ellwood
Post(s): Professor of Financial Reporting, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... investigating financial accountability across different modes of provis<b>ion</b> (executive agencies, not-for-profit sector and commercial companies). ...
Keywords: accounting | financial reporting | management accounting | auditing | public services
 
  Professor Costanza Emanueli
Post(s): Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... studies focus on therapeutic angiogenesis and cardiac regenerat<b>ion</b> by gene and cell therapy. I hold a British Heart Foundation ...
Keywords: therapeutic angiogenesis | cardiac regeneration | nerve growth factor (NGF) | human foetal progenitor cells | human embryonic stem cells | kallikrein-kinin system
 
  Dr Pauline Emmett
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... the way in which early eating habits (breastfeeding, introduct<b>ion</b> of solids, type of snack foods) may influence later dietary ...
Keywords: eating habits | breastfeeding | dietary patterns | obesity | infant feeding | childhood diet | childhood obesity
 
  Dr Julie Etches
Post(s): Faculty Safety Manager and Adviser, Engineering Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: My current research (in collaborat<b>ion</b> with Imperial College) is based on manipulating the performance ...
Keywords: composite systems | actuation | sensing | multifunctional
 
  Professor Kim Etherington
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... supervisor, consultant and trainer in voluntary and statutory organisat<b>ion</b>s, especially in the field of trauma, abuse and health. I ...
Keywords: trauma | abuse | health | narrative research methodologies | reflexive research methodologies
 
  Dr David Evans
Post(s): Visiting Professor, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... mapping of complex traits and diseases through genome-wide associat<b>ion</b> analysis as well as the development of statistical methodology ...
Keywords: genetics | genetic mapping | disease | phenotypes | arthritis
 
  Professor Sir Malcolm Evans
Post(s): Professor of Public International Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... research interest lie primarily in issues concerning the internat<b>ion</b>al protection of human rights, with particular focus on the ...
Keywords: human rights | freedom of religion or belief | torture | law of the sea
 
  Dr Anthony Everett
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... reference and the philosophical issues surrounding empty names, fict<b>ion</b>, the imagination, and non-existence. In my current work I argue ...
Keywords: philosophy of language | philosophy of mind | metaphysics | logic | aesthetics | Millianism | empty names | semantic paradoxes
 
  Professor Richard Evershed
Post(s): Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... the way that it is affected by natural processes and the act<b>ion</b>s of mankind. This is achieved principally through the application ...
Keywords: organic geochemistry | biochemistry | ancient environments | modern-day environments | natural processes | actions of mankind | biogeochemistry
 
  Professor David Ewins
Post(s): Visiting Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... dynamics topics, and include efforts to bring about an integrat<b>ion</b> of the experimental, mechanical and theoretical methods that ...
Keywords: structural dynamics
 
  Dr Eldin Fahmy
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: My research concerns the extent of poverty and social exclus<b>ion</b> in the UK and the EU and the policies needed to tackle it. ...
Keywords: poverty | social exclusion | youth disadvantage | rural poverty
 
  Dr Maria Fannin
Post(s): Reader in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... Sciences in July 2006, Dr. Fannin conducted research on the adopt<b>ion</b> and popularity of "homelike" birthing rooms in hospitals in ...
Keywords: feminist theory | reproduction | health care | midwifery | migration
 
  Professor Elaine Farmer
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... interests include foster and residential care, the reunificat<b>ion</b> of separated children with their families, kinship care and ...
Keywords: Child protection | Neglect | fostering | kinship care | adoption | Reunification of children in care with their parents | sexual abuse and substitute care
 
  Dr Ian Farrow
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Structural Design, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... include:- design and analysis of aerospace composite structures, rat<b>ion</b>alisation of design methods and design processes, development ...
Keywords: aerospace composites | design methods | design toold | aerospace composites | acoustic emission monitoring | fatigue damage
 
  Professor Neal Farwell
Post(s): Professor of Composition, Department of Music
Areas of expertise: My composit<b>ion</b>al output includes work for acoustic ensemble, tape alone, live ...
Keywords: music composition | acoustic ensemble | tape alone | live electronics | installation | semiotics | Charles Sanders Peirce
 
  Professor Charl FJ Faul
Post(s): Professor of Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... are focussed on exploring the design principles and applicat<b>ion</b>s of functional hierarchical soft materials utilising ionic ...
Keywords: electroactive nanostructures | conducting organics | molecular electronics | oligo(aniline)s | liquid crystals | functional nanomaterials
 
  Professor Gene Feder
Post(s): Professor of Primary Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor of Primary Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... angina and using cardiovascular risk as a basis of treatment decis<b>ion</b>s. I am particularly concerned about inequitable care. I have ...
Keywords: cardiovascular health | angina | domestic violence | clinical guidelines | primary care | general practice
 
  Professor Anthony Feiler
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Special educat<b>ion</b>al needs and inclusive education, disabled children (enhancing ...
Keywords: special educational needs | inclusive education | children with disabilities | early literacy intervention | collaborative links between schools and families | 14-19 curriculum reforms
 
  Dr Magnus Feldmann
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on comparative and internat<b>ion</b>al political economy and on comparative politics (with a special ...
Keywords: international political economy | comparative political economy | comparative politics | Central Europe | Eastern Europe | communism | international trade
 
  Professor David Fermin
Post(s): Professor of Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... associated with materials and interfaces for solar energy convers<b>ion</b> and storage into chemical fuels. Our multidisciplinary team ...
Keywords: Solar Energy Conversion and Storage | Semiconductor Materials and Photo-Electroactive Systems | Electrocatalysis for Fuel Cell Applications
 
  Mr George Ferzoco
Post(s): Teacher, Department of Religion and Theology
Research Fellow, School of Humanities
Areas of expertise: Most of my research deals with the media of medieval propaganda, and how positive and negatives images of good and bad people...
Keywords: medieval propaganda | sermons / preaching | canonization / canonisation | Pope Celestine V / medieval papacy | genitalia in medieval art | Italian football ('calcio') | Fellini | Tuscany (esp. Massa Marittima & Florence) / Abruzzo (esp. L'Aquila, Sulmona & Corfinio
 
  Dr Natalie Fey
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Transit<b>ion</b> metal complexes catalyse many reactions important in synthetic ...
Keywords: transition metal complexes | organometallic chemistry | synthetic organic chemistry | catalytic reactions | catalysts | synthetically relevant organometallic chemistry | quantum chemistry
 
  Professor Adam Finn
Post(s): Professor of Paediatrics, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor of Paediatrics, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: Research work focusing on the evaluat<b>ion</b> of childhood vaccines against infectious diseases, mucosal ...
Keywords: paediatrics | vaccines | infectious diseases | immunology | child health
 
  Professor Peter Flach
Post(s): Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... and in data-intensive computing, which is an emerging computat<b>ion</b>al paradigm in which the sheer volume of data is the dominant ...
Keywords: machine learning | data mining | structured data | exabyte informatics | scientific discovery | data-intensive computing | networks
 
  Dr Kieran Flanagan
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, Politics and International Studies, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research interests are in historical sociology and the relat<b>ion</b>ship between sociology and theology (Catholicism), which has ...
Keywords: historical sociology | theology | A Secular Age | Sociology at Prayer | religious rituals | theology and sociology
 
  Professor Rachel Flecker
Post(s): Professor of Palaeoclimatology, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: I extract informat<b>ion</b> about past climates from rocks and fossils that were deposited ...
Keywords: Sakhalin | Mediterranean palaeoclimate | Messinian Salinity Crisis
 
  Professor Peter Fleming
Post(s): Professor of Infant Health & Developmental Physiology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... newborn intensive care, developmental assessment and investigat<b>ion</b> and care of children with sleep-related disorders, particularly ...
Keywords: infants | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | infant development | sleep | newborn intensive care
 
  Dr Adrian Flint
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Development Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research interests lie within the field of North-South relat<b>ion</b>s and include issues such as poverty alleviation, sustainable ...
Keywords: North-South relations | poverty alleviation | sustainable development | HIV/AIDs | European Union development policy | development policy | international political economy
 
  Professor Karen Forbes
Post(s): Professorial Teaching Fellow in Palliative Medicine, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: I am a consultant in Palliative Medicine. Half of my sess<b>ion</b>s are clinical and half are devoted to teaching and research. ...
Keywords: palliative care | end-of-life care | medical education | undergraduate medical education | postgraduate medical education
 
  Dr Gaston Fornes
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... foreign exchange exposure in these markets, and the internat<b>ion</b>alization of their companies to other emerging countries. I ...
Keywords: emerging economies | China - Latin America Relations | foreign exchange exposure in emerging economies | SMEs in Emerging Economies
 
  Professor Gary Foster
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... areas have also covered projects on drug discovery and manipulat<b>ion</b> supported through interactions with a range of pharmaceutical ...
Keywords: plant pathology | plant virology | plant molecular biology | molecular virology | molecular mycology | biotechnology | GM plants | GMOs
 
  Professor Robert Fowler
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... have become involved in the campaign to complete the excavat<b>ion</b> of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. I have founded ...
Keywords: Herculaneum | Homer | Herodotus | papyri
 
  Professor Jon Fox
Post(s): Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My expertise is in ethnicity, nat<b>ion</b>alism, and migration. I am interested in the everyday ways ...
Keywords: ethnicity | migration | nationalism | East Europe | ethnic return migration | Hungary | Romania | European nationalism
 
  Professor Ken Fox
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... behaviour change. Scientific governor of the British Nutrit<b>ion</b> Foundation. Adviser to Department of Health on physical activity. ...
Keywords: physical activity | exercise | psychology | obesity | public health | mental health | ageing | self-esteem
 
  Dr Neil Fox
Post(s): Reader, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... other related materials, using various chemical vapour deposit<b>ion</b> techniques. As well as depositing and characterising the films ...
Keywords: folms of diamond | diamond-like carbon | amorphous carbon | chemical vapour deposition techniques | gas phase diagnostics | optical emission spectroscopy | cavity ring-down laser spectroscopy | spectrometry
 
  Dr Clive Frankish
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... prosodic and lexical components form a multi-layered representat<b>ion</b> that allows us to reproduce a sequence of words immediately ...
Keywords: short-term memory | language | speech perception | reading
 
  Professor Nigel Franks
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... embody all of the most important aspects of biological organizat<b>ion</b>. In simple terms they are more than the sum of their parts ...
Keywords: ants | problem-solving | biological organization | ant colonies | collective intelligence
 
  Dr Abigail Fraser
Post(s): Reader in Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... particular focus on maternal health in pregnancy and its relat<b>ion</b> to later life chronic disease risk.
Keywords: life course epidemiology | pregnancy | women's reproductive health | cardiovascular disease
 
  Professor Mike Fraser
Post(s): Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... I study the practical use of technologies in everyday situat<b>ion</b>s, particularly designing tools and techniques to support social ...
Keywords: use of technology in public | public engagement with computing research | social interaction | human-computer interaction | human-robot interaction | haptics and force feedback
 
  Professor Jan Frayne
Post(s): Professor in Molecular Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: Mammalian fertility: sperm funct<b>ion</b> (& stem cell biology: erythropoiesis) At present our research ...
Keywords: mammalian fertility | sperm function | stemcell biology | erythropoiesis | sperm maturation | male fertility | contraceptive strategies | erythroid differentiation
 
  Professor Norman Freeman
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I work in cognit<b>ion</b>, mostly trying to model and test hypotheses about representational ...
Keywords: cognition | development | preschool | theory of mind | number | drawing | domain specific learning
 
  Professor Jim Freer
Post(s): Professor of Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... environmental modelling; field experiments and computer model simulat<b>ion</b>s to understand process mechanisms for hydrology and water quality; ...
Keywords: hydrology | catchment scale hydrological model development | uncertainty analysis | environmental modelling | phosphorous modelling
 
  Dr Sylvain Friederich
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... Current research topics include: trading system design, competit<b>ion</b> for listing and order flow between trading venues and institutional ...
Keywords: financial market microstructure | stock exchanges | stock markets | high-frequency trading | MiFID | trading systems | market fragmentation | trading transparency
 
  Professor Andrew Friedman
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Management
Areas of expertise: I am the managing director of the Profess<b>ion</b>al Associations Research Network (PARN); a research and development ...
Keywords: Professional Associations Research Network | PARN | management | information systems | professions | environment
 
  Dr Juliane Fuerst
Post(s): Reader in Twentieth-Century History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... all aspects of the social and cultural history of the Soviet Un<b>ion</b>. In particular I am engaged in several projects that involve ...
Keywords: Soviet Union | social history | Soviet youth | youth cultures | Soviet train travel
 
  Dr Allison Fulford
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Centre for Applied Anatomy
Areas of expertise: ... hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA, or stress axis), the major point of interact<b>ion</b> between the endocrine and nervous systems and of critical importance ...
Keywords: stress | hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis | stress axis | endocrine | nervous systems | stress response | mood disorders
 
  Professor Helen Fulton
Post(s): Chair in Medieval Literature, Department of English
Areas of expertise: In terms of time period and locat<b>ion</b>, my research is focused on the literatures of Wales and England ...
Keywords: literature | medieval | Wales | England | Arthurian | prophecy | political writing | urban writing
 
  Reverend Martin Gainsborough
Post(s): Professor of Development Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research is in the politics of development and the intersect<b>ion</b> between politics and theology. I am interested in bringing ...
Keywords: Politics and development | Theology and politics | Church of England | Public theology
 
  Dr Ann Gaitonde
Post(s): Reader in Aerodynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... concerns the development of numerical methods for the predict<b>ion</b> of unsteady fluid flows. My main areas of interest are flows ...
Keywords: aerodynamics | fluid dynamics | unsteady fluid flows | fluid | rotors | wings | incompressible flows | free surface flows
 
  Professor Carmen Galan
Post(s): Professor of Organic and Biological Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... synthetic tools such as oligosaccharides, glycoconjugates and funct<b>ion</b>al glyco-nanomaterials for biology research.
Keywords: carbohydrate chemistry | glycobiology | oligosaccharide synthesis | glycopeptides | ionic liquids | enzymology | functional nanomaterials
 
  Professor Edwin Gale
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... founded by Andrew Cudworth, led to the establishment of the populat<b>ion</b>-based Bart’s-Oxford Study in 1985. This led to the first survival ...
Keywords: diabetes | type 1 diabetes | future onset of diabetes | childhood onset diabetes | human brain
 
  Dr Marina Gall
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... Music, ICT and Musical Learning, creativity, comparative profess<b>ion</b>al education and development. Between 2006 and 2009, I chaired ...
Keywords: teaching | learning | teaching music | learning music | musical learning | comparative professional education | music education
 
  Professor Tim Gallagher
Post(s): Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: The stereocontrolled synthesis of funct<b>ion</b>alised N- and O-containing heterocycles is a central theme ...
Keywords: heterocyclic chemistry | synthetic methodology | natural product synthesis | neurotransmission | carbohydrate chemistry | carbohydrate based interactions
 
  Dr Ayalvadi Ganesh
Post(s): Reader in Complexity Sciences, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the mathematical modelling of communicat<b>ion</b> and computer networks, and in decentralised algorithms for ...
Keywords: probabilistic modelling | communication networks | large deviations | queuing theory | random graphs | decentralised algorithms | complex networks
 
  Dr Geetanjali Gangoli
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: I work on different aspects of violence against women including domestic violence and forced marriage in the UK among South...
Keywords: forced marriage | domestic violence | trafficking for prostitution | sex work | ethnic minority communities | violence against women | Indian women
 
  Dr Paul Gates
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... sequential mass spectrometry - especially using electrospray <b>ion</b>isation and collision induced dissociation. I am also generally ...
Keywords: mass spectrometry | ion fragmentation | natural products | complex organic molecules | gas-phase chemistry | inorganic mass spectrometry
 
  Professor Martin Genner
Post(s): Professor in Evolutionary Ecology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the ecological and evolut<b>ion</b>ary processes have shaped spatial and temporal patterns of biological ...
Keywords: population genetics | aquatic environments | European marine fishes | fishes of the East African great lakes | climate change | conservation genetics | pelagic fishes
 
  Professor Sarah George
Post(s): Professor of Cardiovascular Signalling, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... cadherin mediated cell-cell contacts and Wnts in the regulat<b>ion</b> of smooth muscle cell behaviour and cardiovascular disease ...
Keywords: cells | cadherins | smooth muscle cells | cardiovascular disease | proliferation | migration | apoptosis | plaque rupture
 
  Dr Henkjan Gersen
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... physical and optical processes at nanometer length. This fascinat<b>ion</b> is driven by the fact that as we move to smaller and smaller ...
Keywords: nanophysics | nano-optics
 
  Dr Mohamed Ghorbel
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... proteomics to study the molecular processes underlying reoxygenat<b>ion</b> injury in children undergoing repair of cyanotic congenital ...
Keywords: genomics | proteomics | reoxygenation | heart disease | myocardial protection | cardiac myocytes
 
  Dr Frances Giampapa
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Negotiat<b>ion</b> of identities in multilingual contexts; Critical ethnography; ...
Keywords: identity | multilingual contexts | critical ethnography | language research | multiliteracies | equity in education | language contact | linguistic ideologies
 
  Dr Mhairi Gibson
Post(s): Reader in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... field of human behavioural ecology: using concepts from evolut<b>ion</b>ary biology to explain human behavioural diversity. The study ...
Keywords: human behavioural ecology | evolutionary biology | ecology | evolution | natural selection | child health | population changes
 
  Professor Wendy Gibson
Post(s): Professor of Protozoology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... interests include the mechanism of genetic exchange (sexual reproduct<b>ion</b>) in trypanosomes, molecular evolution and taxonomy of trypanosomes, ...
Keywords: molecular parasitology | African trypanosomes | sexual reproduction in trypanosomes | molecular evolution of trypanosomes | sleeping sickness | protozoa | animal trypanosomiasis
 
  Professor Iain Gilchrist
Post(s): Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I am interested in human visual percept<b>ion</b> and cognition. My research combines what we see, how we see ...
Keywords: human vision | perception | eye movements | visual attention
 
  Professor Paula Giliker
Post(s): Professor in Comparative Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... contract and tort, in particular the comparative law of obligat<b>ion</b>s and I have published widely in all these fields. I am currently ...
Keywords: contract law | tort law | contracts | comparative law of obligations | comparative tort law | comparative law | vicarious liability | contractual remedies
 
  Dr Kathleen Gillespie
Post(s): Reader in Molecular Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... research projects include further analysis of the novel observat<b>ion</b> that maternal cells have the capacity to differentiate into ...
Keywords: autoimmunity | genetic mechanisms | maternal cells | functional pancreatic beta cells | NK cells | autoimmune diabetes | diabetes | Down's syndrome
 
  Dr Francesco Giovannoni
Post(s): Reader in Economics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... theorist. I work on political issues such as lobbying and corrupt<b>ion</b>, and the study of political institutions. I also work on issues ...
Keywords: lobbying | corruption | auctions | game theory | microeconomics | politics | institutions
 
  Dr Luca Giuggioli
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: My general interest is the construct<b>ion</b> of spatially explicit theoretical models, validated through ...
Keywords: animal movement | animal interactions and territoriality | anomalous diffusion | complexity sciences | spatio-temporal ecological patterns | non-equilibrium statistical physics | foraging and search strategies | disease spread
 
  Dr Paul Glennie
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... late-medieval and early modern England; demography; consumpt<b>ion</b>, urbanism and development of modern consumer societies; geographies ...
Keywords: historical geography | demography | geographies of times & timing | geographies of wages & work in early modern England | consumption | urbanism & development of modern consumer societies
 
  Dr Ruth Glynn
Post(s): Reader in Modern Italian Culture, Department of Italian
Areas of expertise: ... late twentieth-century Italian culture and include representat<b>ion</b>s of the anni di piombo; postmodernism; the historical novel ...
Keywords: Italian culture | anni di piombo | poatmodernism | historical novel | philosophy of history | Italy | political violence | film
 
  Professor Patrick Godfrey
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... complex engineering topics such as: infrastructure design, operat<b>ion</b>s and management; uncertainty, risk, value and safety management ...
Keywords: design | engineering | infrastructure design | operations & management | systems
 
  Professor Harvey Goldstein
Post(s): Professor of Social Statistics, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... My book 'Multilevel Statistical Models' is in its third edit<b>ion</b> and a standard reference work in the field. I am also interested ...
Keywords: statistical modelling | assessment models | educational effectiveness | value added indicators | multilevel modelling
 
  Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill
Post(s): Professor of Health and Anthropology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... osteoarthritis, disability in later life, help-seeking, clinical decis<b>ion</b>-making and public involvement in research. Current work ...
Keywords: social anthropology | health research | long-term pain | osteoarthritis | disability in later life | clinical decision-making | arthritis
 
  Professor David Gordon
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow in Social Justice, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research. I am director of the Townsend Centre for Internat<b>ion</b>al Poverty Research (www.bristol.ac.uk/poverty). I am also ...
Keywords: poverty and deprivation | health inequalities | social inclusion | disability | social justice | Third World | resource allocation | census
 
  Professor Alexander Gorodnik
Post(s): Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... interests are in the theory of dynamical systems and and its connect<b>ion</b>s with other branches of mathematics such as number theory, ...
Keywords: ergodic theory & dynamical systems | number theory
 
  Professor Joachim Gottsmann
Post(s): Professor of Volcanology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... evaluate associated mass changes beneath them. This informat<b>ion</b> helps in assessing periods of volcanic unrest, which may represent ...
Keywords: volcano | hydrothermal systems
 
  Professor Julian Gough
Post(s): Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... background in protein structure which I use to study molecular evolut<b>ion</b> by developing bioinformatics tools and algorithms to study ...
Keywords: bioinformatics | genomics | computational biology | evolution
 
  Dr David Grant
Post(s): Simulation and Inter-professional Learning Lead for Medicine, Centre for Medical Education
Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... Electrolyte. I have been the Director of the Bristol Paediatric Simulat<b>ion</b> Programme since 2007 and together with key faculty I have developed ...
Keywords: paediatric intensive care | paediatrics | simulation | renal support | fluids & electrolyte
 
  Mr Stephen Gray
Post(s): Head of the Research Data Service, Library Services
Areas of expertise: I have published around the conservat<b>ion</b> and the digital preservation of our cultural heritage. My special ...
Keywords: digital art | installation art | digital preservation | digital media | digitisation | conservation | film and television archives | video
 
  Professor Peter Green
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... complex stochastic systems - I work both with specific applicat<b>ion</b> areas (such as gene expression, protein structure, and other ...
Keywords: mathematical modelling | stochastic systems | statistical methodology | Bayesian modelling | graphical models
 
  Dr Alexander Greenhough
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: Tumour cell survival mechanisms and colorectal cancer chemoprevent<b>ion</b>. Context-dependent roles for beta-catenin, HIF-1 and COX-2 ...
Keywords: tumour cell survival | colorectal cancer cell biology and chemoprevention | hypoxia and the tumour microenvironment | beta-catenin | transcription factors | apoptosis and autophagy | HIF-1 | COX-2, prostaglandins, NSAID and aspirin
 
  Professor Steven Greer
Post(s): Professor of Human Rights, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: Human rights generally but particularly institut<b>ion</b>al issues and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Keywords: human rights | human rights in Europe | European Convention on Human Rights
 
  Dr Celia Gregson
Post(s): Consultant Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... bone mass may help us to identify new ways of treating condit<b>ion</b>s associated with reduced bone mass, like osteoporosis. This ...
Keywords: bones | dense bones | genetic abnormalities | high bone mass | reduced bone mass | osteoporosis | osteoarthritis
 
  Professor Claire Grierson
Post(s): Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Head of School, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... is the product of complicated physical and chemical interact<b>ion</b>s between molecules, but how do these produce growth, and how ...
Keywords: development | differentiation | root hair development | cell growth | plants | interdisciplinary research
 
  Dr Elinor Griffiths
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: I research the basic mechanisms of energy product<b>ion</b> in the heart, how these enable the heart to beat, and what ...
Keywords: heart | metabolism | hormones | energy | calcium | ischaemia | heart disease | mitochondria
 
  Dr Rosemary Grogono-Thomas
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Science, Farm Animal Science
Areas of expertise: I am a veterinary surgeon specialising in infectious diseases of small ruminants, primarily sheep. I have an active research...
Keywords: Sheep Health and production | Footrot | infectious diseases | small ruminants | sheep | lameness | disease | farming
 
  Professor Paul Grout
Post(s): Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... Political Economy at the Centre for Market and Public Organisat<b>ion</b>. I am mainly interested in public organisation, law & economics ...
Keywords: public organisation | law and economics | finance
 
  Dr Mike Gulliver
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Staff Development Officer (Research Fellows), Human Resources
Areas of expertise: My background is in languages and linguistic nat<b>ion</b>hood. More specifically in the history, cultural and identity ...
Keywords: Deaf | Deafhood | Deaf space | sign language | nationhood | geography | translation | history
 
  Professor David Gunnell
Post(s): Professor of Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... research and policy interest in the epidemiology and prevent<b>ion</b> of suicide in the UK and internationally. I am a member of ...
Keywords: suicide epidemiology | mental health | lifecourse epidemiology | insulin-like growth factors | height and health | schizophrenia epidemiology
 
  Dr Anne Haase
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Exercise, Nutrition and Health, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... to the benefits of exercise and diet in mental health (depress<b>ion</b>, eating disorders). Recent interventions aim to facilitate ...
Keywords: health psychology | physical activity and eating behaviour change | depression | eating disorders | body image | anxiety
 
  Dr Angela Hague
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: ... epithelium and developing strategies for oral cancer chemoprevent<b>ion</b>.
Keywords: apoptosis | oral cancer | differentiation | cellular motility | Bag-1 | cyclooxygenase-2
 
  Professor Gill Hague
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. We conduct nat<b>ion</b>al and international studies of violence against women and offer ...
Keywords: violence against women | domestic violence
 
  Dr Shelley Hales
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... architecture and I am now researching the prominence of Aphrodite and D<b>ion</b>ysos in Roman domestic and commemorative art. Last year I collaborated ...
Keywords: art | Roman world | domestic art | architecture | Aphrodite | Dionysos | commemorative art
 
  Professor Andrew Halestrap
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Emeritus Professor, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: The regulat<b>ion</b> of metabolism, especially mitochondrial. The role of mitochondria ...
Keywords: mitochondria | heart | ischaemia / reperfusion injury | metabolism | lactate | transport | cell death | biochemistry
 
  Professor Stephen Hallett
Post(s): Professor in Composite Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Mechanisms - 3D Reinforced Composites - Cohesive zone formulat<b>ion</b>s for finite element analysis - Fatigue of Composites
Keywords: aerospace composites | aerospace | notched damage | composite materials | impact damage mechanisms | composites | composite fatigue
 
  Dr Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the theory of the firm, public organisat<b>ion</b>s and humanitarian aid.
Keywords: theory of the firm | public organisations | humanitarian aid
 
  Dr Chrissy Hammond
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... targets that could be used to prevent osteoarthritis progress<b>ion</b>. Zebrafish are translucent and develop rapidly. This, combined ...
Keywords: zebrafish | osteoarthritis | development | bones | cartilage
 
  Professor Jules Hancox
Post(s): Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: I am interested in elucidating the funct<b>ion</b> of small membrane proteins (ion channels and exchangers) responsible ...
Keywords: arrhythmia | antiarrhythmic | electrophysiology | atrioventricular node | QT-interval | drug induced arrhythmia | pacemaking | pharmacology
 
  Dr Jonathan Hanley
Post(s): Reader in Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... (AMPARs) mediate the majority of fast excitatory synaptic transmiss<b>ion</b> in the brain, and plasticity at excitatory synapses involves ...
Keywords: trafficking | dendritic spine | synapse | synaptic transmission | actin cytoskeleton | PICK1 | AMPA receptor
 
  Dr Simon Hanna
Post(s): Reader in Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... the physics of holographic optical tweezers and their applicat<b>ion</b>s in nanoscience. My group has developed techniques for computing ...
Keywords: computer simulation | physics of holographic optical tweezers | molecular nanophysics | molecular nanostructures | soft matter
 
  Dr Sion Hannuna
Post(s): Senior Teaching Associate, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: I am a member of the Visual Informat<b>ion</b> Laboratory research group. Visual Information Laboratory currently ...
Keywords: computer vision
 
  Professor Richard Harris
Post(s): Professor of Quantitative Social Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: Social statistics, measuring segregat<b>ion</b> and inequality, the social geography of the UK, school choice.
Keywords: social, economic and political geography | socio-spatial inequalities | spatial statistics | geodemographics | segregation | education
 
  Dr Andrew Harrison
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Rapid development of models / simulat<b>ion</b>s of dynamic systems / processes including printing equipment, ...
Keywords: automatic control | dynamics | machine process modelling | Matlab Simulink | biomechanics
 
  Professor Richard Harrison
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... many years my research has centred on field projects and excavat<b>ion</b>s designed to obtain first-class data to model palaeo-economic ...
Keywords: European prehistory | Bell Beakers | Bronze Age | pastoralism | Palaeo-economics | Horse-Raising
 
  Mr Tim Harrison
Post(s): Bristol ChemLabS School Teacher Fellow, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... in a wide variety fo outreach activities including demonstrat<b>ion</b> lectures, teacher training and hands-on practical work for ...
Keywords: Chemistry Outreach | Practical Chemistry Demonstration Training | Bristol ChemLabS Science Communicator in Residence
 
  Professor Susan Harrow
Post(s): Ashley Watkins Chair in French Language and Literature, Department of French
Areas of expertise: ... poetry and the novel with a particular focus on the interrelat<b>ion</b> of literary modernism and visual culture. I published 'The ...
Keywords: French literature | visual culture | literary modernism | Zola | French culture
 
  Dr Helmut Hauser
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Robotics, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... robotics. I am especially interesting in morphological computat<b>ion</b> (embodiment), which based on observations in nature, understands ...
Keywords: Bio-inspired Robotics | Morphological Computation | Soft Robotics | artificial intelligence | Embodiment | Unconventional Robotics
 
  Dr Kate Hawkey
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Education (History), School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests History educat<b>ion</b> including the place of narrative in children’s understanding, ...
Keywords: history education | history | children's understanding | narrative | online learning | new technology | learning | videopapers
 
  Professor Alastair Hay
Post(s): Professor of Primary Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... appropriate use of antibiotics in primary care and the relat<b>ion</b>ship between primary care antibiotics and the development of ...
Keywords: child | common illnesses | diagnosis | antibiotics | antibiotic resistance | primary health care
 
  Professor Stephen Hayden
Post(s): Professor of Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... high-temperature superconductivity (Nobel Prize 1987) and the fract<b>ion</b>al quantum Hall effect (Nobel Prize 1988). My research aim is ...
Keywords: spin fluctuations and high-Tc superconductivity | transition metal magnetism and superconductivity | landau quantum oscillations in metals & superconductors
 
  Dr Jo Haynes
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My main research interests are focused on racialisat<b>ion</b> within music, especially in relation to the theoretical and ...
Keywords: racialization | music cultures | racism | educational disadvantage | sociology of the media
 
  Dr Peter Heard
Post(s): Research Fellow, Interface Analysis Centre
Areas of expertise: Materials analysis and modificat<b>ion</b> using focused ion beams. Electronic, photonic and spintronic ...
Keywords: focused ion beam/ sims | electronic, photonic & spintronic device nano-fabrication
 
  Professor Greg Heath
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... particles of nature. I am currently a member of the collaborat<b>ion</b> working on CMS, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron ...
Keywords: high energy particle physics | Compact Muon Solenoid
 
  Dr Ali Heawood
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow In Primary Care Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... evaluate patient experiences of health care or of participat<b>ion</b> in randomised controlled trials. I am a senior methodologist ...
Keywords: qualitative health services research | primary care | patient experience | NHS | organisation and delivery of care | qualitative research in clinical trials | evaluation | patient-professional relationships
 
  Dr Suzanne Held
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: ... fundamental and applied aspects of domestic animal behaviour and cognit<b>ion</b>. Currently funded projects are on: • social cognition ...
Keywords: domestic animal behaviour | animals | animal cognition | pigs | lambs | evolution of social cognition
 
  Dr Guido Heldt
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Music, Department of Music
Areas of expertise: ... 1997 (at the University of Muenster in Germany) with a dissertat<b>ion</b> on English early-20th-century tone poems (by Granville Bantock, ...
Keywords: Film music analysis | Film music history (esp. film music and musical film in Nazi Germany) | Representation of music in film (esp. composer biopics) | British art-music (esp. 20th century)
 
  Dr Richard Helyer
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: My area of expertise centres on the use of high-fidelity human patient simulators in the teaching of basic biomedical sciences....
Keywords: human patient simulator | physiology | medical | biomedicine | simulation | METI | Stan | modelling
 
  Dr Emily Henderson
Post(s): Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... University of Bristol and the Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundat<b>ion</b> Trust.
Keywords: Parkinson's | Parkinson | Falls | gait | older people | clinical trials | ageing | Elderly
 
  Professor Graeme Henderson
Post(s): Research Collaborator, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Professor of Pharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: drug abuse Drug act<b>ion</b> in the brain analgesia
Keywords: neuropharmacology | drug abuse | drug action in the brain | analgesia | the brain
 
  Professor Jeffrey Henderson
Post(s): Professor of International Development, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... have focused on the developmental consequences of global product<b>ion</b> networks as well as on the relation of economic governance ...
Keywords: economic development | global production networks | economic governance | poverty | East Asia | China
 
  Dr Erica Hendy
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I extract records of past climate and environmental condit<b>ion</b>s from coral and cave deposits. The purpose is to understand ...
Keywords: environment | environmental conditions | climate | coral | cave deposits | ecosystems | coral biomineralization | reef ecosystems
 
  Professor Jeremy Henley
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: Understanding the processes that dictate the distribut<b>ion</b>, maintenance and dynamics of neurotransmitter receptors is ...
Keywords: Neurotransmitters | neurotransmitter receptors | synapses | Receptors | posttranslational modifications | proteins | kainate receptors.
 
  Professor Denis Henshaw
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: The Human Radiat<b>ion</b> Effects Group is funded by the charity CHILDREN WITH LEUKAEMIA ...
Keywords: leukaemia | non-ionising radiation | pineal gland | melatonin | powerlines | childhood leukaemia
 
  Professor Eric Herring
Post(s): Professor of World Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... reference to Iraq and world politics from the period of sanct<b>ion</b>s (1990-2003), invasion and occupation (2003-04) and post-occupation ...
Keywords: Iraq since 1990 | economic sanctions | security policy
 
  Dr Guido Herrmann
Post(s): Reader in Control and Dynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... research interests are in robust and/or intelligent control/estimat<b>ion</b>. Emphasis is given towards the development of novel theoretical ...
Keywords: control | estimation | parameter estimation | robust control | robust estimation | robotics | automotive systems | probe microscopy
 
  Professor Ingeborg Hers
Post(s): Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Signalling, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... the signalling pathways that are involved in platelet activat<b>ion</b>, in particular those that may play a role in platelet hyperactivity ...
Keywords: platelet activation | platelet aggregation | platelet hyperactivity
 
  Professor Pauline Heslop
Post(s): Professor of Intellectual Disabilities Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... health-related issues •Mental health and related issues •Transit<b>ion</b> from children's to adults' services •Short-break services ...
Keywords: learning disabilities | health and social care | health care | mental health
 
  Professor Marianne Hester
Post(s): Chair in Gender, Violence & International Policy, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research on many aspects of violence, abuse and gender relat<b>ion</b>s, including recent work on: children and domestic violence, ...
Keywords: violence against women | violence against women and children in China, Denmark and UK | domestic violence | Street prostitution | Criminal justice approaches | child contact and domestic violence | Child sexual exploitation
 
  Professor Alistair Hetherington
Post(s): Melville Wills Chair in Botany, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... maintain a strong interest in the calcium-based signal transduct<b>ion</b> network. We are also interested in the control of stomatal ...
Keywords: cellular mechanisms | stomatal movement and development | stomatal aperture | cellular level stomata | guard cell signalling | sphingosine-based signalling | evolution of stomata
 
  Professor Volker Heyd
Post(s): Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... pattern of mobility and diet of different prehistoric populat<b>ion</b>s. Additionally, we are piloting currently two further isotope ...
Keywords: early Iron Age | hillfort | isotope projects | prehistoric populations | pattern of mobility | Eastern Thrace | fieldwork projects
 
  Professor Matthew Hickman
Post(s): Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology & Head of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... consequences of drug misuse. These include epidemiology of HCV infect<b>ion</b> and other blood borne viruses among injecting drug users; and ...
Keywords: public health surveillance | hcv epidemiology | injecting drug use | drug misuse epidemiology | health consequences of drug use | indirect estimation methods
 
  Dr Darryl Hill
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: Bacterial infect<b>ion</b>s of the respiratory tract which lead to localised or disseminated ...
Keywords: microbiology | bacterial infections | bacteria and their human host | neisseria meningitidis | moraxella catarrhalis | haemophilus influenzae
 
  Dr Paul Hill
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Research Fellow in Image Communication, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... range of experience in fields such as audio analysis, image fus<b>ion</b>, image and video coding together with an excellent background ...
Keywords: audio analysis | image fusion | image & video coding | general signal processing | machine vision | pattern recognition
 
  Dr Paula Hill
Post(s): Reader in Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... corporate finance/ IPOs. My current research focuses on the predict<b>ion</b> of changes in credit quality and the impact of these changes ...
Keywords: corporate finance/ipos | prediction of changes in credit quality & impact of these changes on asset prices | credit quality | asset prices
 
  Dr Geoffrey Hilton
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... element, array and system design - Antenna modelling and radiat<b>ion</b> pattern analysis - Antenna, RF systems and propagation measurements
Keywords: antennas | Electromagnetic Propagation
 
  Dr Catherine Hindson
Post(s): Reader in Theatre History, Department of Theatre
Areas of expertise: ... theatre history in theatre redevelopment, particularly in relat<b>ion</b> to the Bristol Old Vic. Currently I am working on a book ...
Keywords: theatre history | 1830-1920 | actresses | charity | history in theatre redevelopments
 
  Dr Emma Hitchings
Post(s): Reader in Family Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... and Bristol Universities) funded by the Department of Constitut<b>ion</b>al Affairs which examined how judges exercise their discretion ...
Keywords: family law | judicial discretion | social landlords | rent arrears | ancillary relief | marital property agreement | civil partnership property agreement
 
  Dr Daniel Ho
Post(s): Research Fellow, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... crystal: 3-D defect microcavities and control of spontaneous emiss<b>ion</b> 3. Modelling and simulation of quantum optics in wavelength ...
Keywords: Focused Ion Beam (FIB) | Direct Laser Writing (DLW) | Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) | electromagnetic modelling | Nanophotonics | quantum optics | single photon optics | Chalcogenide glasses
 
  Mr Richard Hobbs
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in French, Department of French
Areas of expertise: In 1999 I established, in collaborat<b>ion</b> with the Department of History of Art, the Arts Faculty 'Centre ...
Keywords: nineteenth century novels | poetry | art historical topics | critical theory
 
  Dr James Hodge
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... Drosophila to study these protein families as they display high funct<b>ion</b>al conservation with mammals and flies are highly genetically ...
Keywords: plasticity | learning and memory | neurons | electrical activity | ion channels | synaptic changes | Drosophila | circadian rhythms
 
  Dr Tamar Hodos
Post(s): Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... encompass themes such as post-colonial perspectives, globalisat<b>ion</b>, and identity. I am also an expert in the archaeology of ...
Keywords: Mediterranean archaeology | Mediterranean Iron Age | post-colonialism | globalisation | identity | archaeology in Turkey
 
  Professor John Hogan
Post(s): Professor of Mathematics (Faculty of Engineering), Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council. The miss<b>ion</b> of the BCCS is that of nurturing the next generation of scientists ...
Keywords: non-linear dynamics | water waves | liquid crystals
 
  Dr Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... language policy and language ideologies; language and migrat<b>ion</b>; minority communities and languages; discourses on the management ...
Keywords: language and economics | multilingualism | minority languages and communities | language policy and planning | language and migration | Language rights and language ideologies | language management | Baltic states
 
  Professor Andrew Hogg
Post(s): Professor of Fluid Mechanics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the dynamics of fluid mot<b>ion</b> applied to geophysical and environmental situations, with a ...
Keywords: fluid motion | two-phase flows | sediment transport | erosional flows | mathematical modelling
 
  Dr Liz Holcombe
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... stability; geotechnics; cost/benefit of landslide risk reduct<b>ion</b> measures in developing countries.
Keywords: slope hydrology & stability | geotechnics | cost/benefit of landslide risk reduction measures in developing countries
 
  Dr Anke Holdenried
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... Ages and am particularly interested in medieval prophetic tradit<b>ion</b>s. My book The Sibyl and Her Scribes. Manuscripts and Interpretation ...
Keywords: middle ages | medieval prophetic traditions | apocalypticism | Sibylla Tiburtina | prophetia | gender | politics
 
  Dr Marc Holderied
Post(s): Reader in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... Behaviour of Bats and their prey. Key research areas are: -echolocat<b>ion</b>: adaptive signal design; object recognition. -sensory physiology ...
Keywords: echolocation | sensory physiology of nectar-feeding bats | directional hearing (bats & insects) | bat flight | spatiotemporal use of natural habitats (bats) | interactions between echolocating bats & ultrasound sensitive prey | evolution of echo signatures in food & prey species
 
  Dr Linda Hollen
Post(s): Senior Research Associate - Statistician, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... signals used by individuals in social groups to convey informat<b>ion</b> about their ecological environment, and the decisions made ...
Keywords: signals | social groups | ecological environment | meerkat | pied babbler
 
  Professor Jeffrey Holly
Post(s): Professor of Clinical Sciences, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... Factor Group (1991-present), and Vice-President of The Internat<b>ion</b>al Society for Insulin-Like Growth Factor Research (1996-present). ...
Keywords: endocrinology | insulin-like growth factor
 
  Dr Fiona Holmes
Post(s): Teaching Fellow in Clinical Sciences, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... factors that are differentially regulated in the dorsal root gangl<b>ion</b> (DRG) following peripheral nerve damage. After injury to peripheral ...
Keywords: neuropathic pain | dorsal root ganglia | sensory neurons | glia | chemokines | galanin
 
  Dr Ian Holyer
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... research group. I am interested in languages in general and funct<b>ion</b>al programming in particular.
Keywords: languages and architecture | functional programming | adapting web pages | graph theory | compiler design (formal methods forum) | global computing (restricted)
 
  Dr Martin Homer
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... real-world systems. We are motivated by problems from applicat<b>ion</b> areas across engineering and the life and health sciences, ...
Keywords: mathematics | engineering mathematics | mathematical modelling | real-world systems | nonlinear dynamics | mathematical and computational biology
 
  Professor Bruce Hood
Post(s): Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... face and gaze processing; inhibitory control of thoughts and act<b>ion</b>s; Spatial representation and action; naïve theories; The origin ...
Keywords: cognitive development | neuroscience | supernatural beliefs | spatial representation | naïve theories | face processing | gaze processing
 
  Professor Emma Hornby
Post(s): Professor of Music, Department of Music
Areas of expertise: ... chant in the middle ages, with particular interests in quest<b>ion</b>s of transmission, orality, the relationship between Old Roman ...
Keywords: western liturgical chant | middle ages | orality | chants | transmission | formulaic chant
 
  Professor Leon Horsten
Post(s): Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... theory, complexity theory, etc.). While there is no implicat<b>ion</b> that formal methods can on their own solve philosophical problems, ...
Keywords: formal methods | graph theory | probability theory | complexity theory | epistemology | metaphysics | philosophy of language | philosophy of science
 
  Dr Jeremy Horwood
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Ethnography / Qualitative Social Science, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... experience of health services, acceptability of clinical intervent<b>ion</b>s, clinical decision-making, chronic illness, pain management, ...
Keywords: applied health research | childhood respiratory tract infections | acceptability of clinical interventions | clinical decision-making | chronic illness | pain management | illness perceptions | gender & identity
 
  Dr Jo House
Post(s): Reader in Environmental Science and Policy, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... work QUEST funds meets the needs of users, and that informat<b>ion</b> exchange is timely and high impact. I also synthesise the science ...
Keywords: the Earth | global environment | environment | carbon cycle | land use change | greenhouse gas emissions | climate | climate change
 
  Professor Alasdair Houston
Post(s): Professor of Theoretical Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... trade-off between gaining energy and avoiding predators, rat<b>ion</b>ality, learning and co-operation & conflict. I also undertake ...
Keywords: trade-off between gaining energy and avoiding predators | rationality | co-operation and conflict | learning | daily and annual routines of behaviour | analysis of life history patterns | behavioural ecology of diving | parental behaviour and mating systems
 
  Professor Paul Howard-Jones
Post(s): Professor of Neuroscience and Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Neuroscience Psychology Educat<b>ion</b> I specialise in research at the interface of neuroscience ...
Keywords: neuroscience and education | games (including computer games) and the brain | creativity and the brain | risk-based decision making and the brain | educational technology and the brain | neuromyths
 
  Dr Nicholas Howden
Post(s): Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Reader in Water & Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... (ABACUS: www.abacus-ipy.org) research project, funded by the Nat<b>ion</b>al Environmental Research Council (NERC) as part of the International ...
Keywords: hydrology | hydrogeology | hydrogeochemistry
 
  Professor Stephen Howe
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Historical Studies (History), Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... British imperial history, including the role of imperial quest<b>ion</b>s in domestic British politics; but my writing also involves ...
Keywords: history of empire | British imperial history | American 'empire' | colonialism | intellectual consequences of decolonisation | anticolonial intellectuals | late-colonial violence
 
  Dr Rob Hughes
Post(s): Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... techniques and data-analysis tools for material & defect characterisat<b>ion</b> for the non-destructive testing of materials, with additional ...
Keywords: Electromagnetic sensing | Eddy-Current Testing (ECT) | Non-destructive testing (NDT) | Material Characterisation | Data-analysis | Microfluidics | Lab-on-a-chip | Magnetism
 
  Professor Martin Hurcombe
Post(s): Professor of French Studies, Department of French
Areas of expertise: ... and of 'France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural representat<b>ion</b>s of the War next Door, 1936-1945' (Ashgate 2011). I am co-editor ...
Keywords: French cultural representations of war | World War One | Spanish Civil War | totalitarianism | political commitment | memory | interwar fascism | interwar communism
 
  Professor Richard Huxtable
Post(s): Professor of Medical Ethics and Law, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: Research focuses on medical law and ethics, particularly decis<b>ion</b>-making at the end of life (e.g. assisted dying, withdrawing ...
Keywords: end of life treatment | surgical ethics | euthanasia/assisted dying | medical law | medical ethics
 
  Dr Fiona Hyland
Post(s): Engagement Programme Manager - Temple Quarter Engagement Programme, Public Engagement
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Internat<b>ion</b>alisation of higher education; developing intercultural competencies; ...
Keywords: internationalisation of higher education | higher education | internationalisation | intercultural competencies | internationalisation at home | health psychology | impacts of perceived stress
 
  Dr Erdin Ibraim
Post(s): Reader in Geomechanics, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... diverse: -Advanced soil mechanics laboratory testing with and without rotat<b>ion</b> of principal stress and strain axes (triaxial, true triaxial, ...
Keywords: seismic wave propagation | dynamics | structural dynamics | micromechanics
 
  Dr Jenny Ingram
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... child health, infant feeding, young people and health promot<b>ion</b>. I also work at the NIHR Research Design Service-South West(Bristol) ...
Keywords: maternal health | child health | infant feeding | breastfeeding | young people | primary care
 
  Dr Neil Ingram
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Science Education (Biology), School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... textbooks for secondary Biology teaching, often in collaborat<b>ion</b> with the Nuffield Curriculum Trust. I joined the Graduate School ...
Keywords: biology | psychology | science | school | teaching | learning
 
  Professor Misa Izuhara
Post(s): Professor of Social Policy, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... been working extensively in the areas of ageing and intergenerat<b>ion</b>al relations, housing and social change, and comparative policy ...
Keywords: ageing | intergenerational relations | housing | social change | comparative policy analysis
 
  Dr Mark Jackson
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research interests lie at the intersect<b>ion</b>s between philosophy and social theory, post-colonialism, urban ...
Keywords: postcolonialism | urban present | historiography | modernity | political ecology | critical pedagogies
 
  Professor Russ Jago
Post(s): Professor of Paediatric Physical Activity and Public Health, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... as possible. I am also very interested in pragmatic intervent<b>ion</b>s to increase children’s physical activity.
Keywords: children | adolescence | physical activity | dietary behaviours | obesity | diabetes | parents | peers
 
  Dr Andrew James
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... cellular electrophysiology of cardiac muscle and the generat<b>ion</b> of arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation (AF). Changes ...
Keywords: cardiac cellular electrophysiology | arrhythmia | patch clamp recording | isolated heart perfusion | cardiac myocytes | cardiac remodelling | atrial fibrillation | conduction mapping
 
  Dr Stephen James
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... authority -Poetry of political witness -Poetry in translat<b>ion</b> -Landscape poetry -Repetitions and refrains -Literary influence
Keywords: modern poetry | repetition in literature | nature poetry
 
  Professor David Jane
Post(s): Professor in Chemical Pharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... with the design, synthesis and pharmacological characterisat<b>ion</b> of analogues of the neurotransmitter glutamic acid in order ...
Keywords: drug design | synthetic organic chemistry | amino acids | medicinal chemistry | computer-aided molecular modelling | neuropharmacology of glutamate receptors
 
  Professor Christopher Jarrold
Post(s): Professor in Cognitive Development and Head of School, School of Psychological Science
Head of School, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... abilities among children with learning difficulties, and condit<b>ion</b>s such as autism, Down syndrome, and Williams syndrome
Keywords: autism | Williams syndrome | Down syndrome | Down's syndrome | children's memory development | children's cognitive development | pretend play
 
  Professor Howard Jenkinson
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: ... mechanisms by which microbes (bacteria and fungi) cause infect<b>ion</b>s. My primary expertise is with Streptococcus bacteria, which ...
Keywords: microbiology and medicine | Streptococcus | Candida | dentistry and microbiology | heart disease and infections | oral diseases | biofilms
 
  Dr Marcus Jepson
Post(s): Lecturer in Qualitative Health Science, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... in the School for Policy Studies has been on the implementat<b>ion</b> and application of the Mental Capacity Act in Social and Health ...
Keywords: mental capacity | conversation analysis | qualitative research methods | Health and Social Care Research
 
  Dr Mark Jepson
Post(s): Reader in Cell Biology, Life Sciences Faculty Office
Reader in Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... host-cells to alter their behaviour. This can involve surface express<b>ion</b> of proteins, secretion of toxins or, in some of the most interesting ...
Keywords: pathogenic bacteria | proteins | toxins | bacteria | bacterial modulation | molecular mechanisms | epithelial cells
 
  Professor Jamie Jeremy
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: My principal research area is the pathophysiology and prevent<b>ion</b> of vein graft failure, in particular the role of reactive oxygen ...
Keywords: pathophysiology | vein graft failure | reactive oxygen species | angiogenesis | pulmonary arterial disease | oxidative stress
 
  Dr Anders Johansson
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: Modeling, analysis, monitoring, and predict<b>ion</b> of human crowds.
Keywords: crowd modeling | crowd disasters | human mobility
 
  Dr Bob Johnson
Post(s): Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Epidemiology, prevent<b>ion</b> and management of herpes zoster (shingles) and its complications ...
Keywords: Herpes zoster | shingles | Varicella zoster virus | immunesenescence | vaccination of older adults
 
  Dr Jason Johnson
Post(s): Reader of Cardiovascular Pathology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... of cell, macrophages, may contribute not only to plaque format<b>ion</b>, but also to their cracking. The macrophages exist in several ...
Keywords: atherosclerosis
 
  Professor Oliver Johnson
Post(s): Professor of Information Theory, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... out and evolves. I have written popular articles on Informat<b>ion</b> Theory - on data compression and links to gambling.
Keywords: probability | information theory | entropy | statistics | mathematics | randomness | odds | gambling
 
  Professor Ron Johnston
Post(s): Professor of Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: Quantitative analysis and interpretat<b>ion</b> of election results. The defintion of Parliamentary constituencies.
Keywords: General Election 2017 | Parliamentary boundaries | Money in politics | Voting patterns | Electoral reform | Bias in election results | Elections
 
  Dr Dorian Jones
Post(s): Reader in Aerodynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... concerns the development of numerical methods for the predict<b>ion</b> of unsteady fluid flows. My main areas of interest are flows ...
Keywords: aerodynamics | fluid dynamics | unsteady fluid flows | rotors | flows | incompressible flows | computational aeroelastics | reduced order modelling
 
  Dr Evan Jones
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... trade, privateering and voyages of discovery. In this connect<b>ion</b> I also works on the economic, political and urban history of ...
Keywords: maritime history | Bristol | Cabot | early modern period | trade | smuggling | shipping | voyages of discovery
 
  Professor Gareth Jones
Post(s): Professor of Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... behaviour of bats, where my key research areas are: -echolocat<b>ion</b> -conservation biology -social behaviour -molecular ecology: ...
Keywords: echolocation | conservation biology | social behaviour | molecular ecology: phylogeny, population structure and kinship | interactions between echolocating bats and prey that can hear ultrasound
 
  Dr Hester Jones
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... interested in supervising research in this area, in the wider relat<b>ion</b> between theology and literature or that of women’s writing.
Keywords: Alexander Pope | emily dickinson | josephine butler | octavia hill | Adrienne Rich | w.s. graham | the rossettis
 
  Professor Matt Jones
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow in Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: How are networks of neurons across numerous brain reg<b>ion</b>s organized during complex processes and behaviour such as learning ...
Keywords: neuronal networks | brain | learning and memory | frontal cortex | hippcampus | neuronal oscillations | schizophrenia | sleep
 
  Professor Michael Jones
Post(s): Professor of Financial Reporting, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... annual report content, financial graphs and financial communicat<b>ion</b>. I also do research on impression management, fraud and creative ...
Keywords: accounting | annual report content | financial communication | financial graphs | impression management, fraud & creative accounting | measuring research quality, bibliometrics | social & environmental reporting and assurance, particularly accounting for biodiversity | financial reporting; international financial accounting; accounting theory, scandals and standards
 
  Dr Mike Jones
Post(s): Reader in Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... efficiency of electron transfer during light energy transduct<b>ion</b>. -how the protein controls the route of electron transfer ...
Keywords: structure, mechanism, stability and environment of reaction centres | purple photosynthetic bacteria | biological electron transfer | light-triggered reactions including transient docking of quinones and cytochromes
 
  Professor Simon Jones
Post(s): Professor of Performance, Department of Theatre
Areas of expertise: ... Modern period, particularly George Chapman. This led to a fascinat<b>ion</b> with rhetoric and the post-structuralist analysis of discursive ...
Keywords: contemporary performance | body and text | models of creativity | cultural-materialist | Elizabethan pedagogic exercises | Early Modern perio
 
  Dr Thomas Jordan
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: The study of dimens<b>ion</b> theory in dynamical systems. While this is fairly well understood ...
Keywords: dimension theory | dynamical systems | conformal-hyperbolic dynamical systems | hyperbolic settings | ergodic theory | geometric measure theory
 
  Dr Ana E Juncos Garcia
Post(s): Reader in European Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... In particular, my doctoral research analysed the European Un<b>ion</b>'s activities in Bosnia (1991-2006). I am also interested ...
Keywords: European foreign and security policy | European Union | EU enlargement | Bosnia | Western Balkans | crisis management | conflict prevention | Spain
 
  Dr Wael Kafienah
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: Controlled differentiat<b>ion</b> of adult and embryonic stem cells to generate new replacement ...
Keywords: embryonic stem cells | adult stem cells | induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells | tissue engineering | cartilage repair | skeletal regeneration
 
  Professor Daniel Karlin
Post(s): Winterstoke Professor of English, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... singer' in English poetry, and (with Samantha Matthews) an edit<b>ion</b> of Henry James's The Bostonians; I am also planning a collaborative ...
Keywords: Victorian poetry | nineteenth-century American literature | Bob Dylan | Rudyard Kipling | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Victorian literature | Marcel proust
 
  Professor Sergey Kasparov
Post(s): Professor in Molecular Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... control arterial blood pressure and how they change in hypertens<b>ion</b>, which remains one of the most acute medical problems in the ...
Keywords: physiological genomics | central cardio-vascular control | arterial blood pressure | hypertension | cells | vasculo-neuronal signalling | the brain | neurones
 
  Professor Risto Kauppinen
Post(s): Chair in Imaging, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... unlimited number of tissue parameters to be revealed for quantificat<b>ion</b> from the CNS, has driven their ever increasing applications ...
Keywords: nuclear magnetic resonance signals in living systems | NMR- based imaging techniques | MR imaging (MRI) | MR spectroscopy (MRS)
 
  Dr Nina Kazanina
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... effort, yet objectively these are tasks of unprecedented computat<b>ion</b>al complexity. Indeed, after more than 50 years of development ...
Keywords: first language acquisition | second or foreign language acquisition | speech perception | sentence processing | neurolinguistics | psycholinguistics
 
  Dr Stuart Kearns
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... analysis of geological materials, specialising in the except<b>ion</b>al preservation of fossils.
Keywords: Scanning Electron Microscopy | Electron Probe Microanalysis | Electron Microprobe Analysis | Earth Science materials
 
  Professor Patrick Kehoe
Post(s): Gestetner Professor of Translational Dementia Research, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... Discovered that angiotensin converting enzyme gene (ACE) variat<b>ion</b> was a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) which has prompted ...
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease | genes | blood pressure and dementia | hypertension and dementia | cognitive decline | degrading enzymes | angiotensin
 
  Professor Eamonn Kelly
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... less responsive to the agonist, a phenomenon called desensitisat<b>ion</b>. Desensitisation can limit the effectiveness of drug therapy. ...
Keywords: G protein-coupled receptors | clinically-prescribed drugs | agonist drugs | desensitisation | effectiveness of drug therapy | molecular mechanisms of desensitisation | functional selectivity
 
  Professor Elaine Kempson
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... financial services and others with an interest in the provis<b>ion</b> of financial services to consumers. I have a particular interest ...
Keywords: personal financial services | banking | saving | credit | debt | money advice | insurance | financial exclusion
 
  Professor Michael Kendall
Post(s): Professor, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research interests cover global, explorat<b>ion</b> and theoretical seismology, with an emphasis on seismic anisotropy. ...
Keywords: earthquake seismology | imaging the Earth's interior | plate tectonics | seismic monitoring | waveform modelling | microseismicity | rock-fracture characterization
 
  Professor Duncan Kennedy
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: My primary interests are Latin literature and its recept<b>ion</b>, literary theory and science studies. As well as books which ...
Keywords: Latin literature | literary theory | Roman love elegy | Latin poetry | poetry | Lucretius
 
  Dr Helen Kennedy
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... focuses on the role of intracellular calcium in signal transduct<b>ion</b> in mammalian hair cells. Increases in intracellular calcium ...
Keywords: auditory hair cells | hair | cells | hearing | deafness | intracellular calcium | mammalian hair cells | hair cells
 
  Professor Patricia Kennett
Post(s): Professor of International and Comparative Public Policy, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... Bristol University in 1993 I have undertaken research, both nat<b>ion</b>ally and internationally, on issues relating to; Governance ...
Keywords: Governance and public policy | welfare state citizenship | homelessness | social exclusion | home ownership | negative equity | economic insecurity
 
  Dr Chris Kent
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: My general research interest is in perceptual cognit<b>ion</b>, with a special interest in the time course of cognition. More ...
Keywords: mathematical modelling | categorisation | time course of cognition | memory | object recognition | absolute identification | inverse base-rate effect | encoding-retrieval interaction
 
  Dr Tarnjit Khera
Post(s): Senior Research Associate (Clinical Research Manager), Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: TNF alpha regulat<b>ion</b> during ocular inflammatory disease. -Effects of TNF alpha ...
Keywords: TNF alpha regulation during ocular inflammatory disease
 
  Professor Pamela King
Post(s): Research Fellow in Arts Faculty Office, Arts Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: ... culture, particularly theatre and drama. I have co-edited edit<b>ion</b>s of both the York and Coventry mystery plays, and written numerous ...
Keywords: medieval theatre/drama | processions | medieval English literature | mystery plays | medieval manuscripts | civic festivals | medieval culture | medieval religious art
 
  Professor Ursula King
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Institute for Advanced Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies
Emeritus Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Department of Religion and Theology
Areas of expertise: gender issues in relig<b>ion</b>s; method and theory; modern Hinduism; interfaith dialogue; ...
Keywords: theology | religious studies | gender in religion | modern hinduism | interfaith dialogue | spirituality
 
  Dr Winnie King
Post(s): Teaching Fellow, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My principles area of research is in reg<b>ion</b>al and economic cooperation and development in East Asia and ...
Keywords: regional and economic cooperation | Greater China | East Asia | political and economic development | policy-making | non-state actor | transnational resources
 
  Professor John Kirwan
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica, particularly in relat<b>ion</b> to the use of glucocorticoids. Evidence based medicine as ...
Keywords: glucocorticoids | rheumatoid arthritis | polymyalgia rheumatica | public participation | OMERACT
 
  Dr Sally-Ann Kitts
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: ... currently working on two main projects. The first is a scholarly edit<b>ion</b> for Clásicos Castalia (Madrid) of the uncut text of Leandro ...
Keywords: Spanish literature (1700-1844) | Spanish intellectual history (1700-1844) | Leandro Fernández de Moratín | Lady Elizabeth Holland | Caminos a la expresividad
 
  Dr Maciej Klemm
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... in 2006. In the same year I joined the Centre for Communicat<b>ion</b>s Research (CCR) at the University of Bristol. My main research ...
Keywords: microwave imaging | antennas for medical applications | radar beamforming algorithms | textile and body-worn antennas | plasmonic nano-antennas | computational electromagnetic methods
 
  Dr Silke Knippschild
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... main research interests lie in the field of intercultural relat<b>ion</b>s and cross—cultural influences between Ancient Western Asia, ...
Keywords: intercultural relations | culture | cross—cultural influences | art | ancient art
 
  Mrs Helen Knowler
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests The inclus<b>ion</b> of children and young people who experience social, emotional ...
Keywords: social, emotional and behavioural difficulties | educational settings | teaching | learning | school | social and emotional aspects of learning | writing as a method of inquiry | Special and Inclusive Education
 
  Professor Toby Knowles
Post(s): Professor of Farming and Food Science, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: ... epidemiologist and as such, much of my work uses studies of populat<b>ion</b>s. I am qualified to review and comment on scientific study ...
Keywords: | animal welfare | animals | farm animals | fish | horse | pony
 
  Professor Simon Kohn
Post(s): Professor of Mineral Sciences, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... interior. Currently my research is mainly concerned with the interact<b>ion</b> of volatile components such as water, carbon dioxide, sulphur ...
Keywords: minerals | melts | fluids | the Earth | magma | volcanology
 
  Dr Adriana Korczak
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... impact of foreign listing on directors' trades and the associat<b>ion</b> between ownership structure and R&D.
Keywords: corporate governance | accounting | Corporate Finance | directors' trades | news announcements | foreign listing | ownership stricture
 
  Dr Piotr Korczak
Post(s): Reader in Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... mechanisms, as well as corporate finance and investment implicat<b>ion</b>s of international cross-listing. I have recently been working ...
Keywords: corporate governance | Corporate Finance | international cross-listing | insider trading
 
  Dr Daphne-Zacharenia Kounali
Post(s): Research Fellow in Statistical Modelling, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: -Development of prognostic models, validat<b>ion</b> and updating and promote the standardization of advanced and ...
Keywords: coping with multilevel/complex structures in outcomes with respect to clustering | multiple & composite discrete endpoints | modelling longitudinal bio markers measured with error and/or are missing
 
  Dr Arne Kovac
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... interested in many kinds of nonparametric problems like regress<b>ion</b>, density estimation and image analysis. My main focus is ...
Keywords: regression | density estimation | image analysis | multiresolution analyses of residuals | taut string method | nonparametric problems
 
  Dr Katja Krebs
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Performance and Theatre Studies, Department of Theatre
Areas of expertise: My research interests are mainly in areas related to translat<b>ion</b> studies, theatre history and historiography, and adaptations ...
Keywords: translation studies | theatre history | adaptations for performance | dramatic tradition | translation and performative practice | twentieth-century European avant-garde
 
  Dr Madhu Krishnan
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Writing, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... culture, with a significant interest in political and social format<b>ion</b>s. I work on both continental and diasporic African writing, ...
Keywords: African literature | postcolonialism | race | book history | world literature | contemporary literature | prize culture | African cinema
 
  Professor Martin Kuball
Post(s): Professor of Physics (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder), School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... assessment; thermal management; device thermal and stress simulat<b>ion</b>s; stress analysis; nanotechnology.
Keywords: Raman | photoluminescence | thermography | temperature | stress | reliability | failure | semiconductor
 
  Professor Patricia Kuwabara
Post(s): William P. Coldrick Chair in Genomics, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... development and physiology. We are using classical and funct<b>ion</b>al genomic approaches, such as RNAi (RNA mediated interference), ...
Keywords: genetic tractability | C. elegans | organismal development | physiology | RNA mediated interference | fluorescent reporters | protein chemistry
 
  Professor Jim Kyle
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Social Sciences and Law Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: ... people since 1974. Experience of research projects, locally, nat<b>ion</b>ally and internationally. Particular focuses on * Deaf community ...
Keywords: Deaf Community | British Sign Language | sign bilingualism | Deaf Learning | technology for Deaf access | legal matters in regard to Deaf people
 
  Professor James Ladyman
Post(s): Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... also include general epistemology and metaphysics, the relat<b>ion</b>ship between science and religion, philosophy of mathematics ...
Keywords: philosophy | philosophy of science | philosophy of physics | metaphysics | philosophy of mathematics | science and religion | epistemology | philosophical logic
 
  Professor Judy Laing
Post(s): Professor of Mental Health Law, Rights and Policy, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... 2000. My research has been published in a number of internat<b>ion</b>ally recognised peer-reviewed journals. In 2004, I assisted ...
Keywords: medical law | mental health law | mental health | tort law | criminal law | criminal justice | mentally disordered offenders
 
  Professor Helen Lambert
Post(s): Professor of Medical Anthropology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: I am a social anthropologist who has lived and done research in India as well as the U.K. I am interested in social and cultural...
Keywords: medical anthropology | India | traditional medicine | health-seeking behaviour | STD/HIV prevention | public understanding of medicine | risk perception | genetic screening
 
  Dr Kurt Lampe
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... include psychoanalysis, existentialism, and pragmatism. In addit<b>ion</b> to writing papers on the authors listed above, I am currently ...
Keywords: Greek literature | Latin literature | modern literature | critical theory | Greek tragedy | psychoanalysis | existentialism | pragmatism
 
  Dr Athene Lane
Post(s): Reader in Trials Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... barriers to recruitment in RCTs, the design and analyses of quest<b>ion</b>naire data in prostate cancer and gastroenterelogy. I am ...
Keywords: prostate cancer | randomised controlled trials | Helicobacter pylori
 
  Dr Jon Lane
Post(s): Reader in Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the regulat<b>ion</b> programmed cell death in health and disease. My key research ...
Keywords: apoptosis | autophagy | programmed cell death | caspases | secretory pathway | cytoskeleton | microtubules | biochemistry
 
  Dr Philip Langton
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: Funded by the British Heart Foundat<b>ion</b>, my laboratory conducts research on the physiology of small ...
Keywords: physiology | small arterial blood vessels | muscular walls | small arteries | cardiovascular system | lymphatic drainage | arteries
 
  Professor Jonathan Lawry
Post(s): Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... sets -Label Semantics for Modelling Vague Concepts -Foundat<b>ion</b>s of uncertain reasoning in Artificial Intelligence -Combining ...
Keywords: Fuzzy Logic | artificial intelligence
 
  Dr Daniel Lawson
Post(s): Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: I am interested in the process of evolut<b>ion</b>, in understanding the patterns that arise from it and how we ...
Keywords: inference | modelling | complex systems | stochastic models | ecology | evolution | markov chain monte carlo
 
  Professor Sally Lawson
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... nervous system, that is the first nerve cells that carry informat<b>ion</b> towards the brain about non-painful or painful stimuli. More ...
Keywords: pain | chronic pain | spontaneous pain | primary afferent neurons | sensory nerve cells | sensory nervous system | electrophysiology | immunocytochemistry
 
  Professor Ian Learmonth
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... interests include: factors contributing to stability at impact<b>ion</b> grafting; design features influencing mechanical environment ...
Keywords: hip replacement | replacement arthroplasty
 
  Dr George Leckie
Post(s): Reader in Social Statistics, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... cross-classified models; and multiple membership models. Applicat<b>ion</b>s of multilevel modelling to social science research problems ...
Keywords: multilevel modelling | models | school league tables | measuring school effectiveness | the quality of marking of educational tests | social and ethnic segregation among schools
 
  Dr Ute Leonards
Post(s): Reader in Neuropsychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... in the Cognitive Neurosciences, in particular the investigat<b>ion</b> of the neural mechanisms underpinning visual perception and ...
Keywords: visual perception and action | visual attention | joint attention and action | ageing and dementia | eye movements | human-robot interaction | neuropsychology
 
  Professor Ruth Levitas
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... political thought. Particular interest in the theory, definit<b>ion</b> and history of utopianism (especially William Morris); and ...
Keywords: social exclusion | utopianism | William Morris
 
  Professor Stephan Lewandowsky
Post(s): Chair in Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I am a cognitive scientist with an interest in computat<b>ion</b>al modeling. That is, I try to understand how the mind works ...
Keywords: misinformation and memory updating | acceptance of science | models of memory | skepticism vs. denial | computer simulations | General Election 2017
 
  Dr Cherry Lewis
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... background in geology and geochemistry and worked in the exporat<b>ion</b> side of the oil industry. My interests now lie in the ...
Keywords: history of geology | discovery of radioactivity | James Parkinson of Parkinson's disease | public understanding of science | age of the Earth | Arthur Holmes | Lord Kelvin | geology of Leonardo da Vinci
 
  Dr Paul Lewis-Smith
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in French, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: My principal interests are fict<b>ion</b>, theatre, the works of Cervantes and intellectual history. ...
Keywords: spanish golden age | Cervantes | fiction | theatre
 
  Dr Mei Li
Post(s): Research Officer (Laboratory Facilitator), School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Microemuls<b>ion</b>, liquid crystal and block copolymer template-directed morphosynthesis ...
Keywords: microemulsion | protocells
 
  Professor Nicholas Lieven
Post(s): Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: Research is primarily concerned with aircraft vibrat<b>ion</b> and fatigue. The interest in this area extends to the affect ...
Keywords: aircraft dynamics | aircraft damage and prognostics
 
  Professor Stafford Lightman
Post(s): Professor of Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... environmental stress and disease, and measure changes in gene transcript<b>ion</b> in physiologically relevant areas. We also assess how these ...
Keywords: diurnal and infradian rhythms | stress related disorders | clinical depression | autonomic neuropathy | cushings | addisons | hypothalamic & pituitary disease
 
  Professor Noah Linden
Post(s): Professor of Theoretical Physics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: quantum informat<b>ion</b>, quantum mechanics
Keywords: quantum information | quantum mechanics
 
  Professor Astrid Linthorst
Post(s): Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Head of School, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... particular interest in the role of GABA and serotonin in the regulat<b>ion</b> of the neuroendocrine and behavioural responses to stress. ...
Keywords: serotonin | noradrenaline | GABA | stress | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis | autonomic nervous system | hippocampus | exercise
 
  Professor Richard Little
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research interests are on the historical development of internat<b>ion</b>al relations, the historiography of the discipline, and theoretical ...
Keywords: international relations | foreign policy | balance of power | politics
 
  Dr Genevieve Liveley
Post(s): Reader in Classics, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... Augustan literature, critical theory, and the classical tradit<b>ion</b>. I am co-editor and contributor to a forthcoming volume on ...
Keywords: Augustan literature | literature | critical theory | Ovid
 
  Mr Michael Liversidge
Post(s): Emeritus Dean of Arts, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... painting, landscaping and garden history, and classical recept<b>ion</b>s from the the Augustan to the Victorian periods. I co-founded ...
Keywords: British art | landscape painting | landscaping | garden history | classical receptions | British architecture | English landscape art
 
  Dr Charlotte Lloyd
Post(s): Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... (specifically in an agricultural context) via hydrological and eros<b>ion</b> pathways. My current research forms part of a national DEFRA-funded ...
Keywords: soil organic matter (som) | erosion | Water quality | Organic biomarkers and tracers
 
  Professor Liz Lloyd
Post(s): Professor of Social Gerontology, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... interests in health and social care policies on ageing and the relat<b>ion</b>ship between social justice and care. Recent research has included ...
Keywords: health and social care | health care | social care | social justice and care | care at the end of life | older people | supportive care | dignity in later life
 
  Dr Stephen Lolait
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... reference to the molecular basis of the structural and funct<b>ion</b>al diversity of receptors in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal ...
Keywords: molecular genetics | neuropeptide receptors | hormone receptors | hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis | oxytocin receptor | apelin receptor | vasopressin receptors | oestrogen receptors
 
  Professor Andres Lopez Bernal
Post(s): Professor of Human Reproductive Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... research interests include; molecular aspects of hormone act<b>ion</b> and signal transduction; the control of uterine contraction/relaxation; ...
Keywords: hormone action | signal transduction | uterine contraction | ovarian cells | perinatal mortality | uterine contractility | hormone signalling
 
  Dr Natalie Lord
Post(s): Research Associate in Nuclear Waste Safety, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... advanced computer-based climate models, and statistical emulat<b>ion</b>. My work primarily aims to produce projections of a range of ...
Keywords: climate change | nuclear waste disposal | glacial-interglacial cycles | environment | carbon cycle | future and palaeo climate modelling
 
  Dr Oliver Lord
Post(s): Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... properties of planetary materials. These properties include equat<b>ion</b>s of state, melting behaviour and phase relations. My present ...
Keywords: experimental petrology | Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell | planetary materials | equations of state | the Earth | iron-rich alloys | phase relations
 
  Professor Mark Lowenberg
Post(s): Professor of Flight Dynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Areas of expertise: ... systems design and analysis, experimental (wind tunnel) investigat<b>ion</b>s into stability and control, and novel aircraft (manned and ...
Keywords: aircraft dynamics | aircraft control | wind tunnel testing | aircraft design
 
  Dr Lisa Lucas
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Sociology of Higher Educat<b>ion</b>, International Comparisons of Systems of University Research ...
Keywords: Sociology of higher education | higher education | university research evaluation and funding | the links between research and teaching in higher education | postgraduate education | research and teaching
 
  Dr Patricia Lucas
Post(s): Reader, Child Health Research, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... from poor readers, to breast feeding, growth in infancy, nutrit<b>ion</b> intervention, depression in fathers of young children, to mentoring ...
Keywords: early childhood development | child disability | child poverty | child deprivation | inequalities in health | educational interventions | nutritional interventions | social interventions
 
  Dr Casimir Ludwig
Post(s): Reader, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... interested in how motor systems deal with incoming sensory informat<b>ion</b> to guide behaviour. My research to date has focused on the ...
Keywords: models of perceptual/saccadic decision-making | visual signals driving saccadic eye movements | visual responses across saccades | learning the statistics of the 'world' | orienting behaviour during self-motion
 
  Professor Bridget Lumb
Post(s): Professor of Systems Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: We combine electrophysiological studies with funct<b>ion</b>al anatomical approaches to investigate the organisation and ...
Keywords: midbrain | hypothalamus | spinal nociception | autonomic outflow | nociceptive responsiveness | behavioural states | pathophysiological conditions | nociceptive afferents
 
  Professor Dan Lunt
Post(s): Professor of Climate Science, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... broad, but a particular focus is on icesheet-climate interact<b>ion</b>s, both in the past and in the future. Other research focuses ...
Keywords: icesheet-climate interactions | palaeo record | past climate change | climatic impacts of geoengineering
 
  Dr Stephen Lyne
Post(s): Senior Academic Fellow, Department of Accounting and Finance
Areas of expertise: ... and Management. My main research interests are in organisat<b>ion</b>al management accounting, particularly the use of activity-based ...
Keywords: organisational management accounting | Organisation Structure | budgeting | management accounting | activity-based techniques
 
  Dr John Lyons
Post(s): Reader in Religion and History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... main research interests are in the area of Biblical Interpretat<b>ion</b>, especially in the areas of Biblical Theology and the History ...
Keywords: biblical interpretation | biblical theology | history of exegesis | exegesis | Hebrew Bible | Dead Sea Scrolls | New Testament
 
  Dr John Macdonald
Post(s): Reader, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: Vibrat<b>ion</b>s of bridges and other civil engineering structures and their ...
Keywords: structural dynamics | wind engineering | bridges | cable structures | wind-induced oscillations | pedestrian-induced vibrations | structural monitoring | cable dynamics
 
  Professor Christine MacLeod
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Historical Studies (History), Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... cultural history of technology, in particular the history of invent<b>ion</b>s and patents in Britain, between the 17th and early 20th centuries, ...
Keywords: history of technology | history of inventions | history of patents | changing status of inventors | nineteenth-century British culture | Heroes of Invention | history of design
 
  Dr Frankie MacMillan
Post(s): Reader in Biomedical Science Education, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: We combine funct<b>ion</b>al anatomical approaches and immunocytochemical techniques to ...
Keywords: sensory input | immunocytochemistry | neurones | nociceptive responsiveness | autonomic outflow | pathophysiological conditions | immunocytochemical techniques | tract tracing techniques
 
  Professor Paolo Madeddu
Post(s): Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... research also addresses diabetes-related microvascular complicat<b>ion</b>s, in particular impaired angiogenesis and wound healing. My ...
Keywords: therapeutic angiogenesis | myocardial ischaemia | ischaemia | diabetes | microvascular complications | wound healing | angiogenesis | stem cells
 
  Professor Heidy Mader
Post(s): Professor, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... Volcanological research has focused on multiphase flow and fragmentat<b>ion</b> processes during explosive volcanic eruptions, multiphase rheology, ...
Keywords: volcanology | glaciology | multiphase flow | fragmentation processes | multiphase rheology | microscopic water content
 
  Dr Dan Magnus
Post(s): Honorary Research Associate, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Convenor of the Internat<b>ion</b>al Child Health Group for the Royal College of Paediatrics and ...
Keywords: global child health | paediatrics | emergency medicine | health education | child health | healthcare | developing countries | Kenya
 
  Professor David Main
Post(s): Professor, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: ... into the management systems of the animal units and certificat<b>ion</b> schemes (where applicable). My current research projects include ...
Keywords: animal welfare | livestock | dairy cattle lameness | tail biting in pigs | pig welfare
 
  Dr Jacqueline Maingard
Post(s): Reader in Film, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: I have recently completed a book on South African Nat<b>ion</b>al Cinema in the National Cinema series published by Routledge. ...
Keywords: South African National Cinema | cinema of Southern Africa | identities represented in the cinema | cinema | Uku Hamba ‘Ze
 
  Dr Karim Malik
Post(s): Reader in Epigenetics, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... Research Cancer epigenetics - We are conducting genome-wide methylat<b>ion</b> screening using microarrays in order to assess epigenetic lesions ...
Keywords: Wilms' tumour | eukaryotic gene expression | cancer | epigenetics | genetics | non-coding RNA
 
  Dr Alice Malpass
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... the use of Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy as an intervent<b>ion</b> for respiratory patients with anxiety and/or depression; the ...
Keywords: meta-ethnography | cognitive interviewing | Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy | mental health research | medical education
 
  Professor Fred Manby
Post(s): Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... structure theory and quantum chemistry. We also work on the applicat<b>ion</b> of new methods to problems of chemical interest. Our main projects ...
Keywords: electronic structure theory | quantum chemistry | Ornstein-Zernike equation | electronic structure theory | electron correlation problem in solids | liquids | electron correlation
 
  Professor Stephen Mann
Post(s): Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Research Themes: - Biomineralizat<b>ion</b> - Biomimetic Materials Chemistry - Magnetic Proteins and ...
Keywords: biomineralisation | biomimetic materials chemistry | magnetic proteins | bioinorganic nanocomposites | template-directed synthesis | nanotectonics | bionanochemistry | protein melts
 
  Professor Ian Manners
Post(s): Professor of Inorganic & Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... their fundamental materials chemistry will have critical implicat<b>ion</b>s for the future. Research in the Manners group focuses on the ...
Keywords: inorganic elements | synthetic reactions | inorganic chemistry | molecular synthesis | polymer science | materials science | Supramolecular Chemistry
 
  Professor Jens Marklof
Post(s): Dean of the Faculty of Science and Professor of Mathematical Physics, Science Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: -Quantum Chaos -Dynamical Systems -Equidistribut<b>ion</b> -Modular Forms
Keywords: quantum chaos | ergodic theory & dynamical systems | number theory | mathematical physics
 
  Professor Alex Marsh
Post(s): Professor of Public Policy, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... policy and finance in the social housing sector and the regulat<b>ion</b> of private rented sector. My interest in housing policy is ...
Keywords: housing policy | housing economics and finance | theorizing the policy process | organisation and management in the public sector | social and private rented housing | economics and the policy process
 
  Dr Lee Marshall
Post(s): Reader in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research on the music industry, particularly the transformat<b>ion</b>s caused by the internet, and also piracy. I have wide-ranging ...
Keywords: popular music | copyright | piracy | music industry | Bob Dylan | arts consumption | bootlegging | celebrity
 
  Professor Paul Martin
Post(s): Professor of Cell Biology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Professor of Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... mutant forms of various small GTPases, I have tested the funct<b>ion</b> of actin-based elements in both dorsal closure and the repair ...
Keywords: wound re-epithelialisation and morphogenesis in drosophilia | inflammation/fibrosis genes in mice | inflammation in zebrafish larvae | inflammation in drosophila embryos
 
  Professor Trevor Martin
Post(s): Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... senior research fellow with BT, working on intelligent informat<b>ion</b> management - the application of soft computing techniques to ...
Keywords: artificial intelligence | fuzzy set theory | intelligent information management | semantic web | user modelling | uncertainty in artificial intelligence | soft computing
 
  Professor Charles Martindale
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... (particularly Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Lucan), and its recept<b>ion</b>, especially in English literature. I have written extensively ...
Keywords: literature | critical theory | aesthetics | Latin poetry | Shakespeare | Milton
 
  Professor Judith Masson
Post(s): Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... expertise combines knowledge of the law (statute, case and regulat<b>ion</b>) with a research-based understanding of the law's operation ...
Keywords: family law | Children Act 1989 | Child protection | child care law | Stepfamilies | Child contact | judicial statistics | judicial decision making
 
  Professor Peter Mathieson
Post(s): Honorary Professor of Medicine and Dentistry Faculty Office, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... research interests are in human glomerular cell biology and regulat<b>ion</b> of glomerular permeability, and I lead the group in the Academic ...
Keywords: autoimmune renal diseases | kidneys | systemic lupus erythematosus | human glomerular cell biology | regulation of glomerular permeability | renal diseases
 
  Dr David Matthews
Post(s): Reader in Virology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... over a host cell in order to maximise the efficient replicat<b>ion</b> of the virus. In pursuit of this we are using both deep sequencing ...
Keywords: adenovirus | virology | nucleolus | gene therapy | deep sequencing | next-generation sequencing | SILAC quantitative proteomics | high throughput
 
  Dr Jonathan Matthews
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Quantum Technology, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: My research is aimed at photonic implementat<b>ion</b>s of quantum walks, quantum-enhanced measurement and proof-of ...
Keywords: quantum sensors | quantum computers | quantum optics | optics | integrated optics | waveguides
 
  Dr Ben Maughan
Post(s): Reader in Astrophysics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: I study clusters of galaxies, which are the largest gravitat<b>ion</b>ally bound objects in the Universe. In particular I use X-ray ...
Keywords: astronomy | galaxy clusters | cosmology | universe | structure formation | x-ray astronomy | dark matter
 
  Professor David May
Post(s): Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... papers and patents and I have given numerous conference presentat<b>ion</b>s. In 1990, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for ...
Keywords: computer architecture | robotics
 
  Professor Paul May
Post(s): Professor of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Deposit<b>ion</b> of thin films of diamond and diamondlike carbon for mechanical ...
Keywords: diamond | thin films | chemical vapour deposition | diamond-like carbon | plasma etching | amorphous carbon
 
  Professor Robert Mayhew
Post(s): Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History, School of Geographical Sciences
Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Areas of expertise: ... geographical writing, travel writing and literary representat<b>ion</b>s of landscapes in Britain from 1600 to 1900. Especial interests ...
Keywords: history of geography | landscape in literature | history of travel and discovery | Thomas Robert Malthus | Samuel Johnson
 
  Professor Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
Post(s): Professor in Robotics, Computer Vision and Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: Computer vis<b>ion</b>: Real-time tracking, Object recognition, Active Vision. Robotics: ...
Keywords: computer vision | robotics | wearable computing
 
  Dr Angeline Mbogo Barrett
Post(s): Reader in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: My main interest is in how internat<b>ion</b>al development agendas and rapid global change influence teachers' ...
Keywords: education for sustainable development | teacher professionalism | pedagogy | secondary education | social justice | language policy in education | sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania
 
  Professor Craig McArdle
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... receptors on pituitary gonadotrophs to mediate control of reproduct<b>ion</b> by the CNS. Type I mammalian GnRH receptors are unique in that ...
Keywords: cell signalling | G-protein coupled receptor signalling | G-protein coupled receptor trafficking | gonadotrophin-releasing hormone signalling | ERK signalling
 
  Professor Morag McDermont
Post(s): Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... PhD research concerned the historical role played by the Nat<b>ion</b>al Housing Federation (the representative organisation for housing ...
Keywords: social housing | housing associations | households in need | employment tribunals | barriers to justice | public law | legal responses to terrorism | governmentality
 
  Professor Joe McGeehan
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: I am an expert in mobile communicat<b>ion</b>s and have pioneered many techniques both experimental and theoretical ...
Keywords: wireless communications | wireless LANs | mobile phones, 3G, 4G, WiMAX, LTE, UWB | MIMO | smart antennas | modulation and coding | networks | radiowave propagation
 
  Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith
Post(s): Professor in High Performance Computing, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... Computing (HPC) and embedded Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applicat<b>ion</b>s. Research interests include using the latest graphics processors ...
Keywords: High Performance Computing | HPC | GPU computing | GPGPU | many-core processors | multi-core processors | computer architecture | super computing
 
  Professor Josie McLellan
Post(s): Professor of History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... see my webpage for further details of my research and publicat<b>ion</b>s.
Keywords: East Germany | GDR | memory | sexuality | everyday life | nudism | nude photography | erotica
 
  Professor Gregor McLennan
Post(s): Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: I am a social theorist and analyst of contemporary culture and politics. I have published widely on social ideas and ideologies,...
Keywords: ideology and politics | knowledge, science and society | theories of society | the role of the state | social class | culture and society | the circulation of ideas | public intellectuals
 
  Professor John McNamara
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... work attempts to understand how the process of natural select<b>ion</b> has shaped the behaviour of organisms. Typically I formalise ...
Keywords: behavioural ecology | evolutionary biology | life-history theory | evolutionary game theory | ageing
 
  Professor Harry McVea
Post(s): Professor of Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: I teach Company Law, Contract Law and Regulat<b>ion</b> of Financial Markets and Institutions. I am author of Financial ...
Keywords: company law | contract law | regulation | regulation of financial markets | financial markets | the Chinese Wall | hedge fund regulation | hedge funds
 
  Dr Andrew Medford
Post(s): Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... biology in the lung and pleural disease as well as medical educat<b>ion</b>. I am a NICE Specialist Advisor for interventional pulmonology ...
Keywords: respiratory medicine | endobronchial ultrasound | interventional/advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy | clinical coding & health economics | pleural ultrasound and disease | lung VEGF biology
 
  Dr Lena Melekhova
Post(s): Research Fellow in Experimental Petrology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... processes include the deep Earth water cycle, in which the format<b>ion</b> and stability of hydrous minerals in subduction zone environments ...
Keywords: experimental petrology | petrology | mantle | crust | deep Earth water cycle | magma | volcanic geochemistry
 
  Dr Evangelos Mellios
Post(s): Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: My expertise lies in wireless propagat<b>ion</b> for a variety of communication systems, including next generation ...
Keywords: wireless communications | antennas | wi-fi | 5G Communication Systems | Internet of Things | on-body sensing | eHealthcare | vehicular Communications
 
  Professor Harry Mellor
Post(s): Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... controllers of cell shape and cell movement through their regulat<b>ion</b> of the actin cytoskeleton. I am trying to understand the functions ...
Keywords: regulation of intracellular traffic and the actin cytoskeleton by rho family gtpases
 
  Professor Jack Mellor
Post(s): Professor in Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... neuroscientist specialising in how the brain retains informat<b>ion</b> by modifying the connections between nerve cells.
Keywords: neuroscience | learning and memory | synaptic plasticity
 
  Professor Phil Mellor
Post(s): Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... and fuel cell vehicle power trains -aircraft electrical actuat<b>ion</b> and generation systems -automative 42v electrical systems -mems ...
Keywords: electrical machines | power electronics | aircraft
 
  Professor Jane Memmott
Post(s): Professor of Ecology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research interests encompass food web biology, invas<b>ion</b> ecology, biological control, pollination biology, restoration ...
Keywords: food web biology | invasion ecology | ecology | pollination biology | biology | habitats
 
  Professor Michael Mendl
Post(s): Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Farm Animal Science
Areas of expertise: My current research interests are in the study of cognit<b>ion</b>, emotion, and social behaviour in domestic animals, with a ...
Keywords: cognition | emotion | social behaviour | domestic animals | animals | animal welfare | pig cognition | tail-biting in pigs
 
  Professor Chris Metcalfe
Post(s): Professor of Medical Statistics, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: The development of approaches to the evaluat<b>ion</b> of statistical methods in practical contexts; the development ...
Keywords: medical statistics | clinical trial design | Design of epidemiological studies
 
  Mr Peter Metelerkamp
Post(s): Reader in Teaching & Learning, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: ... image made by mechanical means may provide a vehicle for reflect<b>ion</b> on, and understanding of, our relation with the material world, ...
Keywords: documentary still photography | still images | authorship and objectivity | documentary process | South Africa
 
  Professor Francesco Mezzadri
Post(s): Professor of Mathematical Physics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Random matrix theory has found applicat<b>ion</b>s in a variety of areas of physics, pure and applied mathematics, ...
Keywords: random matrix theory | quantum chaos | statistical mechanics | number theory
 
  Dr Torsten Michel
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on the intersect<b>ion</b> of international relations theory with international political ...
Keywords: international relations theory | international political thought | international relations | security studies | 20th century continental philosophy | politically motivated mass death
 
  Dr Pantelis Michelakis
Post(s): Reader in Classics, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... fields of Greek literature and culture and the classical tradit<b>ion</b>. I am particularly interested in Greek tragedy and its reception ...
Keywords: Greek literature | literature | classics | Greek tragedy
 
  Dr Jim Middleton
Post(s): Reader, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: ... and presented by endothelial cells leading to leukocyte migrat<b>ion</b> from the blood and into the tissue; 2)the chemokine receptors ...
Keywords: chemokines | chemokine receptors | inflammatory disease | cell trafficking | endothelial cells | leukocytes | stem cells
 
  Professor Roger Middleton
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of the History of Political Economy, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: British history, especially economic history and political economy since the late nineteenth century. Recent books include...
Keywords: modern British history | Thatcherism | economic policy | political economy | economics profession | ICT in history | quantitative history
 
  Professor Ann Millar
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... particularly related to the development of fibrosis and hence the condit<b>ion</b>s Adult respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Idiopathic ...
Keywords: respiratory medicine | interstitial lung disease
 
  Mr Peter Milner
Post(s): Teaching Fellow in Film and Television, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: I teach film and televis<b>ion</b> production in the department, at both undergraduate and postgraduate ...
Keywords: television production | film production | lighting | cinematography | film-making
 
  Dr Scott Miners
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... I collected, the department was awarded a James Tudor Foundat<b>ion</b> research grant to examine the potential of the Aß-degrading ...
Keywords: dementia | beta-amlyoid degrading enzymes | Alzheimer's disease | enzymatic assays | neprilysin | biomarkers
 
  Professor Majid Mirmehdi
Post(s): Professor of Computer Vision/Engineering Faculty Education Director, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... will result in more automatic intelligent analysis of informat<b>ion</b> seen by a camera rather than seen by a human being.
Keywords: image analysis | computer vision | pattern recognition | medical image analysis
 
  Mr David Mitchell
Post(s): Senior Clinical Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... QI committee. Finally, I am programme director for the Nat<b>ion</b>al Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Quality Improvement Programme.
Keywords: surgery | vascular & renal transplant surgery | management of aortic aneurysm | lower limb ischemia (including diabetic foot disease and amputation) | vascular access surgery | venous disease | vascular malformations
 
  Professor Tariq Modood
Post(s): Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: I am a leading authority on the socio-economic posit<b>ion</b> of ethnic minorities in Britain, especially in relation to ...
Keywords: race | ethnic minorities | British Muslims | multiculturalism | institutional racism | Islamophobia | cultural racism | hyphenated identities
 
  Dr Kristian Moen
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: ... modernity. I am currently completing a monograph on the relat<b>ion</b>ships between early French cinema, American cinema from the ...
Keywords: cinema | fantasy | modernity | early French cinema | American cinema | silent cinema | themes of transformation
 
  Dr Binyam Mogessie
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: All human life starts with the fertilisat<b>ion</b> of an egg by a sperm. In my research laboratory, we use very ...
Keywords: Chromosome segregation | Meiosis | Female fertility | microtubules | Early mammalian embryogenesis | Mammalian egg development | Cytoskeletal dynamics | Actin
 
  Professor Elek Molnar
Post(s): Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: Receptor funct<b>ion</b> and localisation in neuronal and non-neuronal cells. The ...
Keywords: synaptic plasticity | glutamate | immunocytochemistry | hippocampus | oligodendrocyte
 
  Professor Nicoletta Momigliano
Post(s): Professor of Aegean Studies, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... are ceramics, Bronze Age Anatolia and Anatolian/Aegean interact<b>ion</b>. Finally, I teach material culture to undergraduates. I ...
Keywords: Aegean prehistory | minoan archaeology, especially the archaeology of knossos | history of aegean bronze age studies | ceramics | bronze age anatolia | Anatolian/Aegean interaction | material culture
 
  Dr Jessica Moody
Post(s): Lecturer in Public History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: I am a Lecturer in Public History and my research concerns how people engage with the past; how the past is 'used' in the...
Keywords: Public History | Heritage | memory | Memorials | Representation of Slavery | Memory of Slavery | Difficult Histories
 
  Professor Andy Morgan
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: My expertise is in viral associat<b>ion</b>s with human cancers and the induction of therapeutic and prophylactic ...
Keywords: cancer | vaccines | Epstein-Barr virus
 
  Professor Bronwen Morgan
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... on the political economy of regulatory reform, the intersect<b>ion</b> between regulation and social and economic human rights, and ...
Keywords: political economy of regulatory reform | regulatory reform | regulation | social rights | economic rights | human rights | global governance | water delivery
 
  Dr Marcus Morgan
Post(s): Lecturer in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... various cultural factors (such as narrative, coding, symbolisat<b>ion</b>, myth, ritual, performance, etc.) that shape political life. ...
Keywords: cultural sociology | political sociology | performance | power | social movements
 
  Professor Kevin Morris
Post(s): Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... of new and novel methods of radio frequency power amplificat<b>ion</b>. These methods are intended to provide the required levels ...
Keywords: Radio Frequency Technology | Power Amplifier Design
 
  Professor Timothy Mowl
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... of the Institute of Garden and Landscape History. In preparat<b>ion</b> for the MA in Garden History I published a core text - Gentlemen ...
Keywords: garden history | Institute of Garden and Landscape History | landscape parks | landscape gardens | historic landscapes of England | William Kent
 
  Professor Carolyn Muessig
Post(s): Professor of Medieval Religion, Department of Religion and Theology
Areas of expertise: My research interests include: monastic educat<b>ion</b> and preaching, especially the sermons of Hildegard of Bingen ...
Keywords: monastic education | Medieval religion | medieval culture | monastic preaching | late medieval stigmatics | stigmatics
 
  Dr Sumita Mukherjee
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: History of South Asians in Britain; history of women's rights in India
Keywords: migration | multiculturalism | women's rights | suffrage | Indian subcontinent | South Asians
 
  Professor Adrian Mulholland
Post(s): Professor, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Most biochemical react<b>ion</b>s depend on enzyme catalysis, and understanding how enzymes ...
Keywords: enzyme catalysis | quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics qm/mm methods | computational biochemistry | enzymology | modelling biological molecules | drug design | drug metabolism
 
  Dr Siobhan Mullan
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Farm Animal Science
Areas of expertise: ... ensure validity of the approaches taken by the Soil Associat<b>ion</b> and RSPCA schemes.
Keywords: animal behaviour
 
  Dr Sebastian Muller
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... the quantum properties of systems whose classical time evolut<b>ion</b> is chaotic. Surprisingly, many of these quantum properties ...
Keywords: quantum chaos | chaotic systems | condensed-matter theory | nonlinear phenomena | disordered systems
 
  Dr Natasha Mulvihill
Post(s): Lecturer in Criminology, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... research and writing has focused particularly on UK policy in relat<b>ion</b> to prostitution and sex work. I have also carried out extensive ...
Keywords: Prostitution and sex work | domestic violence and abuse | 'Honour'-based violence and abuse | Female genital mutilation (FGM) | Child sexual exploitation | Policy responses to gender violence | Justice responses to gender violence | Faith responses to gender based violence
 
  Professor Marcus Munafo
Post(s): Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... and in the role of human personality in explaining the associat<b>ion</b> between genetic variation and addictive behaviours.
Keywords: addiction | nicotine | alcohol | genetics
 
  Professor Stuart Mundell
Post(s): Professor in Cellular Pharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... important physiological responses. In order to examine these quest<b>ion</b>s we use both biochemical and imaging techniques to study receptor ...
Keywords: G protein-coupled receptors | protein | regulatory mechanisms | G protein-coupled receptor traffic | signalling pathways | receptor movement | receptor function
 
  Professor David Murphy
Post(s): Professor of Experimental Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... discovery and transfer techniques to study the neuronal regulat<b>ion</b> of the cardiovascular system in health and disease. Interests ...
Keywords: vasopressin | oxytocin | hypothalamus | transcriptosome | proteome | transgenics | hypertension
 
  Professor Rachel Murray
Post(s): Professor of International Human Rights, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: Internat<b>ion</b>al human rights, particularly African human rights system; national ...
Keywords: human rights | Africa | national human rights institutions
 
  Professor Ian Nabney
Post(s): Professor and Head of SCEEM School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science
Head of School, School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Engineering Maths
Areas of expertise: My research spans both the theory and applicat<b>ion</b>s of neural networks and other pattern recognition techniques, ...
Keywords: data science | machine learning | time series | data visualisation | condition monitoring | biosignal processing
 
  Dr David Nash
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... behaviour of soils - for example behaviour of slopes, foundat<b>ion</b>s and excavations.
Keywords: geotechnical engineering | soil mechanics
 
  Professor Guy Nason
Post(s): Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Mathematics and statistics: theory, computat<b>ion</b>, and application. Areas of application interest: politics, ...
Keywords: statistics | mathematics | politics | defence | bioinformatics | proteomics
 
  Dr Michael Naughton
Post(s): Reader in Sociology and Law, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Reader in Sociology and Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: Founder and Chair Innocence Network UK, umbrella organisat<b>ion</b> for member innocence projects in UK universities. See: http://www.innocencenetwork.org.uk
Keywords: miscarriages of justice | prisoners maintaining innocence | criminal appeals | innocence projects | harm of wrongful convictions | expert witness evidence
 
  Mr Mark Neild
Post(s): Teaching Fellow, Centre for Innovation
Areas of expertise: As a long time practit<b>ion</b>er and more recent academic, I have many years in the practical ...
Keywords: innovation | Business Model Innovation | Collaboration and Partnering | Co-creation
 
  Professor Simon Neild
Post(s): Professor in Nonlinear Structural Dynamics/Head of Department Civil Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Vibrat<b>ion</b> suppression: My work includes developing a device for suppressing ...
Keywords: adaptive control | substructuring | control of hydraulic systems | non-linear dynamics | damage detection
 
  Dr Yuri Netrusov
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Funct<b>ion</b>al spaces; partial differential equations; spectral theory.
Keywords: functional spaces | partial differential equations | spectral theory
 
  Professor David Newbold
Post(s): Professor of Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... carefully studying quantum particles created in these condit<b>ion</b>s, we can learn about the few very simple laws that underlie ...
Keywords: particle physics | CERN | CMS experiment | Higgs boson | Large Hadron Collider (LHC) | superstrings | extra dimensions | grid computing
 
  Dr Ruth Newbury-Ecob
Post(s): Honorary Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... research focuses on the genetic causes of congenital malformat<b>ion</b>s, particularly of the heart and upper limb. I led the British ...
Keywords: congenital malformations | british heart foundation | congenital heart disease | tbox genes | new genetic technologies | obesity | Barth syndrome | inherited cardiac conditions
 
  Professor Andrew Newby
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... vein-graft failure and angioplasty restenosis. Myocardial Infarct<b>ion</b> (MI) is caused by thrombosis superimposed on a ruptured or ...
Keywords: diabetes | plaque rupture | vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques | plaque | vein-graft failure | angioplasty restenosis | myocardial infarction
 
  Professor Andrew Nix
Post(s): Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Engineering Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: Expertise broadly in the areas of Radiowave propagat<b>ion</b> and digital communication system design and optimisation. Antenna ...
Keywords: wireless LANs | antennas and radiowave propagation | cellular phones and standards | Internet of Things | vehicular communications (V2V and V2I) | OFDMA and SCFDMA | wi-fi | 5G (mmWave and Massive MIMO)
 
  Dr Angela Nobbs
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: Defining the molecular mechanisms that enable bacterial colonisat<b>ion</b> of the host, focusing specifically on streptococci. Studies ...
Keywords: Streptococcus | surface proteins | intermicrobial interactions
 
  Professor Catherine Nobes
Post(s): Head of School, School of Biochemistry
Professor of Cell Biology and Head of School, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: Regulat<b>ion</b> of cell migration by ephrin-mediated contact repulsion. Eph ...
Keywords: cell migration | ephrin-mediated contact repulsion | Eph receptors | ephrins | cell repulsion | actin cytoskeleton | Ephs
 
  Professor Nick Norman
Post(s): Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... chemistry and focus primarily on the synthesis and characterisat<b>ion</b> of novel molecular species as well as applications to new solid ...
Keywords: novel molecular species | solid state materials | low oxidation state boron chemistry
 
  Professor Tonia Novitz
Post(s): Professor of Labour Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: An expert in internat<b>ion</b>al and European labour law and human rights, as well as UK employment ...
Keywords: labour law | industrial action | international human rights | European social policy | workers' rights | employment law
 
  Dr Jose Nunez-Yanez
Post(s): Reader in Adaptive and Energy Efficient Computing, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: I am an expert in the area of hardware lossless data compress<b>ion</b>, signal processing with embedded systems (e.g. ARM), video ...
Keywords: reconfigurable computing | lossless data compression | video coding | embedded processor architectures | multiprocessors | FPGA
 
  Professor Jeremy O'Brien
Post(s): Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, Director CQP, School of Physics
Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, Director CQP, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: I work in the fields of quantum informat<b>ion</b> science, quantum optics, nanotechnology, and condensed matter ...
Keywords: quantum physics | quantum information | quantum information science | quantum optics | quantum photonics | photonics | optics
 
  Dr Anne-Marie O'Carroll
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... reference to the molecular basis of the structural and funct<b>ion</b>al diversity of receptors in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal ...
Keywords: molecular genetics | neuropeptide receptors | hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis | oxytocin receptor | apelin receptor
 
  Professor Simon O'Doherty
Post(s): Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... principal scientist in charge of two of the five AGAGE research stat<b>ion</b>s (Ireland and Barbados). AGAGE is one of only two groups in ...
Keywords: chlorofluorocarbons | hydrofluorocarbons | hydrochlorofluorocarbons | greenhouse gases
 
  Dr Ellen O'Gorman
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Classics, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... ways that historical thinking interacts with supposedly ‘fict<b>ion</b>al’ modes of representation, from ancient epic and myth to modern ...
Keywords: ancient historiography | historical thought | myth | historical novels | Roman imperialism
 
  Professor Mike O'Mahony
Post(s): Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: My recent research and publicat<b>ion</b>s have examined: representations of sport and physical culture ...
Keywords: Olympic Games and art | representations of sport in art | Moscow metro | Aleksandr Deineka | Sergei Eisenstein | Soviet art | Soviet public monuments in the post-Soviet era | Soviet culture
 
  Professor Catherine O'Rawe
Post(s): Professor of Italian Film and Culture, Department of Italian
Areas of expertise: ... research area is Italian cinema, focusing in particular on the relat<b>ion</b>s between neo-realist cinema (and Italian film culture more ...
Keywords: Italian film | Hollywood | post-war | contemporary | male stars | femme fatale
 
  Dr Therese O'Toole
Post(s): Reader in Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... role of ethnicity, race and faith in animating political act<b>ion</b> and the impact of place and space on young activists’ political ...
Keywords: ethnicity | youth | political participation | activism | urban governance | political engagement | Ethnic Minority Young Activists | General Election 2017
 
  Dr Gerald Offer
Post(s): Reader, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... illuminated as the atomic structures of new myosin conformat<b>ion</b>s are solved. Moreover, the kinetics of the steps of the cross-bridge ...
Keywords: muscular contraction | muscles | cross-bridge cycle | contracting muscle | mechano-kinetic computer models | transition-state theory | protein complexes | skeletal muscle
 
  Professor Samir Okasha
Post(s): Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... science and philosophy of biology, with special emphasis on evolut<b>ion</b>ary theory. I am also interested in epistemology and metaphysics, ...
Keywords: philosophy | philosophy of science | philosophy of biology | evolutionary biology | evolutionary theory
 
  Professor Ken Oliphant
Post(s): Head of School, University of Bristol Law School
Professor of Tort Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: My main fields of research are tort law and compensat<b>ion</b>. I am author of Torts (Palgrave Macmillan) (with Alastair Mullis), ...
Keywords: tort law | torts | compensation | the law of tort
 
  Professor Clive Orchard
Post(s): Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: My research is focused on cardiac excitat<b>ion</b>-contraction coupling and its regulation. Using a variety of ...
Keywords: cardiac excitation-contraction coupling | intracellular Ca2+ | intracellular messenger pathways | t-tubules | cardiac ventricular myocytes | surface membrane | ion handling
 
  Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing
Post(s): Professor, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... reactivity, atmospheric chemistry, methods of trace gas detect<b>ion</b>, optical properties of aerosol particles, the chemical composition ...
Keywords: pulsed lasers | cw diode lasers | chemical reactivity | atmospheric chemistry | trace gas detection | aerosol particles | photochemistry | molecular spectroscopy
 
  Professor Marilyn Osborn
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: My interests include sociology of educat<b>ion</b>, particularly teachers' work and professional identity, pupil ...
Keywords: teachers' work | professional identity | pupil perspectives on learning | comparative education | adult learning | qualitative research
 
  Professor Elisabeth Oswald
Post(s): Professor in Applied Cryptography, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... Generally interested in problems of applied cryptography and informat<b>ion</b> security, some contribution to the analysis of hash functions, ...
Keywords: cryptography | security | side channel attacks | power analysis attacks | smart cards
 
  Dr Amanda Owen-Smith
Post(s): Lecturer in Medical Sociology/Anthropology, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: I am a social scientist with an interest in decis<b>ion</b>-making in healthcare where resources are short. I have particular ...
Keywords: Healthcare priority-setting
 
  Professor Angie Page
Post(s): Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... influence health behaviours is crucial to the health prevent<b>ion</b> research agenda as it informs what to change for effective ...
Keywords: childhood obesity | obesity | physical activity | eating behaviour | mobility | children
 
  Dr Daniel Page
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... aspects of cryptography; roughly speaking this covers implementat<b>ion</b> of cryptographic primitives (in hardware and/or software) and ...
Keywords: cryptography | cryptographic primitives | physical security | novel processors | processors | compilers | programming languages
 
  Dr Jennifer Palmer
Post(s): Research Associate in Evidence Synthesis, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... Biochemistry at Southampton University. Following my graduat<b>ion</b> in 2005, I moved to Bristol to work as the DNA Bank Technician ...
Keywords: dementia | endothelin converting enzymes in Alzheimer’s disease
 
  Professor Rich Pancost
Post(s): Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Chemistry
Head of School, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... modern and ancient sediments, geomicrobiology and the preservat<b>ion</b> of organic matter. Our research focuses on the development ...
Keywords: organic geochemistry | molecular proxies | isotopic proxies | biogeochemical processes | sediments | geomicrobiology
 
  Dr Angeliki Papadaki
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... theoretical models of behaviour change into pragmatic intervent<b>ion</b>s, particularly in work settings; - Using novel intervention ...
Keywords: Mediterranean diet | dietary behaviours | mHealth | ehealth | obesity | heart disease
 
  Professor Christos Paraskeva
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: -Regulat<b>ion</b> of cell growth, differentiation and cell death; how this is ...
Keywords: experimental oncology
 
  Professor In-Uck Park
Post(s): Professor, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... interests are in the areas of contract theory; industrial organisat<b>ion</b> (theoretical approach); game theory and information. I am currently ...
Keywords: contract theory | industrial organisation | game theory | information | dynamic formation of networks | communication | corporate organisations
 
  Dr Justin Park
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... mechanisms, personality, and context. Topics include biased percept<b>ion</b>s, impression formation, prejudice, and stigmatisation.
Keywords: evolutionary social psychology
 
  Dr Richard Parker
Post(s): Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics/Epidemiology - MRC IEU, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... analysis of multi-level data, including sample size calculat<b>ion</b>s. Finally, I conduct research on cognition and consciousness ...
Keywords: animal behaviour
 
  Professor Mair Parry
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Italian, Department of Italian
Emeritus Professor, Department of Italian
Areas of expertise: ... modern, but I also publish on the current sociolinguistic situat<b>ion</b> in Italy and I am particularly interested in the question of ...
Keywords: dialects | Italy | syntax of dialects | sociolinguistics | minority languages | linguistics
 
  Professor Julian Paton
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow in Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... circuits to provide a matching of cardiac output and minute ventilat<b>ion</b>. Our aim is to identify novel mechanisms and targets that underpin ...
Keywords: central nervous system | cardiovascular system | respiratory system | central nervous circuits | autonomic dysfunction | hypertension | sleep apnoea | neuronal mechanisms
 
  Dr Demi Patsios
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... maintained a primary interest in the effects of an ageing populat<b>ion</b> on policy development and on the capacity of the health and ...
Keywords: health and social care | ageing population | policy development | health and social systems | older people | poorer pensioners
 
  Dr Liz Paul
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: My research concerns the relat<b>ion</b>ship between information processing and emotion in humans and ...
Keywords: cognition-emotion interactions in human and non-human animals. | the structure, functions and evolution of subjective emotion in human and non-human animals. | empathy with and attitudes towards the welfare of animals. | the psychology of human-animal interactions.
 
  Dr Rupert Payne
Post(s): Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... Pharmacologist, with research and teaching interests in safe and rat<b>ion</b>al prescribing in the primary care setting, and particular expertise ...
Keywords: primary care | general practice | Medication Safety | Clinical Pharmacology | Prescribing | Polypharmacy
 
  Professor Tony Payne
Post(s): Professor of Glaciology & Head of School in Geographical Sciences, School of Geographical Sciences
Head of School, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... ice sheets that could lead to large-scale surges (an applicat<b>ion</b> being the Heinrich Layers found in North Atlantic sediment) ...
Keywords: glaciology | Greenland | Antarctica | ice sheets | glaciers | numerical modelling | climate change | sea level rise
 
  Dr Giles Pearson
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... (co-edited with Michael Pakaluk), 'Moral Psychology and Human Act<b>ion</b> in Aristotle', with Oxford University Press (2011). I am currently ...
Keywords: ancient philosophy | metaethics | philosophical psychology | Aristotle | ethics | aesthetics | metaphysics | desire
 
  Dr Matthew Peel
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... thermo-mechanical processing; synchroton x-ray & neutron diffract<b>ion</b>; residual stress.
Keywords: metallurgy | thermo-mechanical processing | synchroton x-ray and neutron diffraction | residual stress
 
  Professor Hugh Pemberton
Post(s): Professor of Contemporary British History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... history since 1945. Current projects include the history of pens<b>ion</b> reform under Margaret Thatcher; Civil Service reform under ...
Keywords: General Election 2017 | British political history | pensions and pensions crisis | contemporary British history | history of economic policy | post-war social policy | history of the UK Civil Service | history of the Labour Party
 
  Professor Hua-Xin Peng
Post(s): Visiting Professor, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... micro- and meso-scales to meet specific engineering applicat<b>ion</b>s. This includes the exploration of the latest advances in nanotechnology ...
Keywords: multifunctional composite materials | aerospace materials and composites | magnetic microwire composites | nanocomposites coatings | microstructural design | metal-ceramic composites
 
  Professor Ian Penton-Voak
Post(s): Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I study human behaviour in the context of our evolut<b>ion</b>ary history. My work has concentrates on perception of social ...
Keywords: human behaviour | evolutionary history | social properties of faces | attractiveness | sexual selection | perception of emotion | social perception of personality
 
  Dr Columba Peoples
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... are in Critical Security Studies, Critical Theory and Internat<b>ion</b>al Relations. Within this I focus in particular on how narratives ...
Keywords: critical security studies | critical theory | technology and international relations | missile defence | space security | international relations | nuclear security
 
  Dr Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in European Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: I am working on the regulat<b>ion</b> of conflicts of interest by analysing whether it is conceptualised ...
Keywords: European Union and Brexit | General Election 2017 | lobbying | Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe | transparency | conflict of interests | Spain | democracy and democratization
 
  Dr Claire Perks
Post(s): Reader in Tumour Cell Biology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... My primary interests are in the role of the IGF axis in relat<b>ion</b> to breast and prostate cancer. The IGF axis has been conserved ...
Keywords: IGF axis | breast cancer | prostate cancer | cancer | epithelial cancers | western diet | cancer progression
 
  Dr Maud Perrier
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... to powerfully shape childrearing practices and the construct<b>ion</b>s of their moral maternal selves.
Keywords: gender | families | feminist activism | motherhood | parenting
 
  Professor Tim Peters
Post(s): Professor of Primary Care Health Services Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... health, obstetrics, cardiovascular disease and urology. In addit<b>ion</b>, I am active in various areas of methodological research, generally ...
Keywords: healthcare | primary care | mental health | obstetrics | cardiovascular disease | urology | randomised trials
 
  Professor Richard Pettigrew
Post(s): Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: ... particularly interested in the search for a satisfactory foundat<b>ion</b>s for mathematics. Mathematical knowledge is thought to be ...
Keywords: philosophy of mathematics | epistemology | Kant | logic | philosophy of science | set theory | category theory | arithmetic
 
  Professor Steven Phillipps
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... Dwarfs or UCDs. Nearer to home, I am a member of the collaborat<b>ion</b>s which are carrying out complete surveys of the plane of our ...
Keywords: Galactic objects | extra-galactic objects | optical telescopes | dwarf galaxies | stellar systems | Ultra-Compact Dwarfs | hydrogen alpha emission line
 
  Dr Jeremy Phillips
Post(s): Reader in Physical Volcanology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... natural flows. Using the techniques of laboratory analogue simulat<b>ion</b> and, latterly, theoretical and computational modeling, I have ...
Keywords: fluid dynamics of volcanological processes | hazardous volcanic and natural flows | dynamics of gravity currents | pyroclastic flows | dynamics of bubbly magmatic flows | magma chamber dynamics | shallow magmatic plumbing systems | conduit convection
 
  Dr Mary Phillips
Post(s): Reader in Organisation Studies, Department of Management
Areas of expertise: ... interests are eclectic but fall into 3 main areas: • The applicat<b>ion</b> of critical and cultural theory in organisation studies. I ...
Keywords: organisation | organisation studies | post-structural feminist theory | management history | women in organisation | entrepreneurs | social enterprise
 
  Dr Angela Piccini
Post(s): Reader in Screen Media, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: I am Lecturer in Screen Studies and Head of Educat<b>ion</b> in Drama. I co-direct the MA in Archaeology for Screen Media. ...
Keywords: archaeology and the media | television audiences and users | performativity, place, space | E-Science
 
  Professor John Pickard
Post(s): Professor of Composition & Applied Musicology, Department of Music
Areas of expertise: Edward Elgar: I am the General Editor of the Elgar Complete Edit<b>ion</b> - the authoritative critical edition of the composer's complete ...
Keywords: composition | Elgar | twentieth century music | British music | Havergal Brian
 
  Professor Tony Pickering
Post(s): Professor of Neuroscience and Anaesthesia, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Honorary Professor of Bristol Medical School (THS), Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... autonomic systems exhibit plastic changes in pathological condit<b>ion</b>s such as in chronic pain states and hypertension. For these ...
Keywords: autonomic neuroscience | integrative neuroscience | sensory neuroscience | nervous system | interoceptive stimuli | exteroceptive stimuli | pathological conditions | neural dysfunctions
 
  Professor Robert Piechocki
Post(s): Professor of Wireless Systems, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: I conduct research in signal processing, coding, informat<b>ion</b> and communication theory. I am also interested in reduced complexity ...
Keywords: Wireless Communication Systems | Networking | Signal Processing and Coding
 
  Dr Debbie Pinfold
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in German, Department of German
Areas of expertise: ... about the Third Reich. I have subsequently worked on representat<b>ion</b>s of childhood in the former GDR, and on the way the former ...
Keywords: East Germany | GDR | Cultural memory of the GDR | Cutlural memory of the Third Reich | Representations of childhood in the GDR | Representations of childhood in the Third Reich
 
  Dr Helen Piper
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: ... interests include various aspects of British broadcasting and televis<b>ion</b> drama, representations of class/gender, questions of performance ...
Keywords: British broadcasting | television drama | representations of gender | representations of class | dramatic performativity | factual television | entertainment | small screen aesthetics
 
  Professor Ralph Pite
Post(s): Professor of English, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... of Dante’s writing at the time and on the lives and self-fash<b>ion</b>ing of Romantic poets); Victorian literature (especially the ...
Keywords: Romantic period | Victorian literature | Dante | post-war British poetry | writing and the environment | the Simple Life
 
  Professor Kit Pleydell-Pearce
Post(s): Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology Education, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... concerned with neurophysiological correlates of human cognit<b>ion</b>, and issues associated with localisation of cognitive function. ...
Keywords: slow cortical potentials | cognitive workload | autobiographical memory | attention | consciousness | neurophysiological signals | human cognition
 
  Dr James Pomeroy
Post(s): Research Fellow in Thermal Materials and Device Research, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: My main research interest is the applicat<b>ion</b> of optical spectroscopy to study the properties of III-nitride ...
Keywords: optical spectroscopy | III-nitride & boron-rich semiconductors
 
  Professor Alastair Poole
Post(s): Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... understanding how protein kinases may regulate platelet funct<b>ion</b> and thrombus formation, and use a wide variety of techniques ...
Keywords: Platelets | primary haemostatic system | pathological development of thrombosis | cell biology of platelets | protein kinases | platelet function | thrombus formation
 
  Professor Geoff Poole
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Music
Areas of expertise: I compose contemporary classical music for live performance e.g. orchestra, voices, chamber music and solo. Experience and...
Keywords: musical composition | contemporary classical music | creativity | African music | Asian music | Postmodernism
 
  Professor Sandu Popescu
Post(s): Professor of Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... some of the central concepts of the new area of quantum informat<b>ion</b> and computation. I have also worked on many other aspects of ...
Keywords: quantum physics | quantum behaviour | quantum non-locality | quantum information | quantum theory
 
  Professor Kevin Potter
Post(s): Professor in Composites Manufacture, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... to composite structures, generating an understanding of dimens<b>ion</b>al variability in composite components, developing technology ...
Keywords: advanced materials | composites | product design | manufacturing | enterprise
 
  Professor Dhiraj Pradhan
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... architecture and parallel processing research, with major publicat<b>ion</b>s in journals and conferences, spanning 30 years. The holder ...
Keywords: micro-chip industry | computer architecture | fault-tolerant computing
 
  Professor Alan Preece
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... on EM fields radiofrequency and microwave and health interact<b>ion</b>s with humans
Keywords: mobile phones and health | electromagnetic fields and health | power-lines
 
  Dr Dorothy Price
Post(s): Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly German Express<b>ion</b>ism and Weimar Culture; realism, magic realism and new objectivity ...
Keywords: German expressionism | Weimar Culture | Realism, Magic Realism and New Objectivity in Painting | Women Artists | Race and Ethnicity in Art | Sexuality and Gender in Art | Contemporary Art in Britain | Photography in 1920s and 1930s Germany
 
  Professor Paul Pringle
Post(s): Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... Homogeneous catalysis is one of the most elegant and useful applicat<b>ion</b>s of transition metal chemistry and it is therefore not surprising ...
Keywords: catalysis | energy | waste | chemical products | clean chemical technology | homogeneous catalysis | transition metal chemistry
 
  Dr Stuart Prior
Post(s): Reader in Archaeological Practice, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... Castle Studies and Medieval Warfare & Weaponry. I am addit<b>ion</b>ally interested in Ancient & Historical Technology, and am particularly ...
Keywords: archaeology and heritage | landscape archaeology | medieval archaeology | warfare & weaponry | castles | The Anarchy | Saxon, Viking & Norman archaeology | ancient technology & experimental archaeology
 
  Professor Tony Prosser
Post(s): Professor of Public Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... main research interests are in Public Law relating to privatisat<b>ion</b> and regulation, especially regulation of public utilities and ...
Keywords: public law | privatisation | regulation | public utilities | broadcasting | competition law | reflexive governance
 
  Dr Steven Proud
Post(s): Reader of Economics Education, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... research builds upon my teaching interests, with expertise in educat<b>ion</b>, in particular higher education, assessment, and the impact ...
Keywords: education | pedagogy | higher education | Funding of Social Care
 
  Dr Jon Pugh
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: My work is focused on electromagnetic modelling and focused <b>ion</b> beam fabrication of nano-scale photonic crystal devices emitting ...
Keywords: electromagnetic modelling | nano-scale photonic crystal devices | indium phosphide | indium antimonide
 
  Professor David Punter
Post(s): Professor of Poetry, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... theory and psychoanalysis; and in postcolonialism and globalisat<b>ion</b>. I have published books and articles in all these areas, and ...
Keywords: contemporary literature | ghost stories | literature and psychology | the uncanny | postcolonialism | higher education and the arts | horror stories
 
  Professor Sarah Purdy
Post(s): Head of School, Bristol Medical School
Head of School, Bristol Medical School, Bristol Medical School
Areas of expertise: ... looking at urgent care use including emergency hospital admiss<b>ion</b>s and how to reduce these using interventions in primary care, ...
Keywords: predictors of primary care sensitive hospital admissions | primary care | unplanned hospital admission | urgent care
 
  Professor Joe Quarini
Post(s): Professor of Process Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... product recovers, product separates and reduces effluent. Applicat<b>ion</b> of ice pigging to water and power utilities, nuclear industry, ...
Keywords: Ice slurries | Cleaning | Pigging | Phase change | heat transfer | Fluid flow
 
  Dr Oliver Quick
Post(s): Reader in Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... I was awarded my doctorate on 'Error and the Medical Profess<b>ion</b>: Regulating Trust' by the University of Wales Cardiff. I am ...
Keywords: criminal law | criminal justice | medical law | public health law
 
  Dr Paul Race
Post(s): Reader in Biological Chemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... (X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, NMR and solut<b>ion</b> scattering) and functional (enzyme kinetics, spectroscopy, ...
Keywords: structure function and engineering of polyketide synthases | hybrid polyketide/non-ribosomal peptide antibiotics and anticancer drugs | polyketide based cholesterol lowering agents
 
  Professor Jonas Rademacker
Post(s): Professor of Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... at Cornell. This research is closely related to CP violat<b>ion</b>, the fundamental difference between matter and antimatter. ...
Keywords: LHCb | Flavour Physics | B physics | CP violation | Charm Physics | Dalitz Plots | matter antimatter asymmetry | CKM matrix
 
  Professor Andy Radford
Post(s): Professor of Behavioural Ecology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... main themes. The first concerns the conflicts and collaborat<b>ion</b>s which arise within and between social groups and particularly ...
Keywords: social behaviour | vocal communication | anthropogenic noise | information use | group decision-making | bird behaviour | development of behaviour | group-living
 
  Professor Kuda Ranatunga
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... at understanding the molecular mechanisms of muscle contract<b>ion</b> through experimental work and modelling. Muscle contraction ...
Keywords: muscle contraction | cyclical interaction of myosin motors | muscle visco-elasticity | Shortening and lengthening muscle | temperature effects on muscle
 
  Professor Andy Randall
Post(s): Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... optical methods including single cell imaging and photo-activated <b>ion</b> channels such as Channelrhodopsins. From a receptor point ...
Keywords: neurophysiological changes | neurological disease | Alzheimer's disease | epilepsy | estrogen-receptor signalling | CNS nicotinic receptors | group I metabotropic glutamate receptors
 
  Dr Sean Rands
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research explores how evolut<b>ion</b> has shaped the behaviour and life histories of animals and ...
Keywords: behaviour | evolution | sociality in animals | predation | ecology | decision-making | wildlife biology | behavioural ecology
 
  Professor John Rarity
Post(s): Professor of Optical Communication Systems, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... single photon technologies including detectors, sources, condit<b>ion</b>al linear logic gates and long range quantum cryptography (maybe ...
Keywords: quantum cryptography | free space optics | entanglement | quantum gates | linear quantum gates | optical quantum computing | single photon optics | quantum interference
 
  Dr Oliver Ray
Post(s): Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... Intelligent Systems research group. I am interested in the integrat<b>ion</b> of abductive and inductive inference with application to Systems ...
Keywords: integration of abductive inference with application to systems biology | non-monotonic induction of action theories with application to requirements engineering | formalisation and automation of scientific method | exabyte informatics
 
  Professor Emily Rayfield
Post(s): Professor of Palaeobiology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I research how living and fossil animal skeletons funct<b>ion</b>, examine why skeletons are shaped in a particular way, and ...
Keywords: dinosaurs | fossils | biomechanics
 
  Professor Gino Raymond
Post(s): Professor of Modern French Studies, Department of French
Areas of expertise: ... research has focused on issues of citizenship, identity, immigrat<b>ion</b> and integration, with particular reference to the challenge ...
Keywords: France | France and Europe | French foreign policy | Franco-British relations | religion and society in France | French politics | contemporary French society | modern French history
 
  Dr Niamh Redmond
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... managing large scale clinical trials to a successful conclus<b>ion</b>. I am interested in clinical trial methodology and research ...
Keywords: healthcare | clinical trials | screening programme | fragility fractures | paracetamol | ibuprofen | low back pain
 
  Professor Barnaby Reeves
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow in Health Services Research, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... methodological research to improve the way in which such evaluat<b>ion</b>s are conducted. My specific methodological interests are ...
Keywords: cardiovascular disease | risk factors | methodology | observational studies | study designs
 
  Professor Jonathan Reid
Post(s): Professor, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... health, visibility, and climate and find technological applicat<b>ion</b> in the delivery of drugs to the lungs, the engineering of nanostructures ...
Keywords: single aerosol particles | aerosol particles | optical tweezers | heat and mass transfer | climate change | atmospheric chemistry | combustion aerosol | laser techniques
 
  Dr Thomas Rendall
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Eventually, this will lead to full-flight aerodynamic simulat<b>ion</b> of aircraft. I am also collaborating on work aimed at optimising ...
Keywords: interpolation | aeroelastics | aerodynamics | Computational Fluid Dynamics
 
  Professor Hans Reul
Post(s): Professor of Neuroscience, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... plasticity processes (e.g. chromatin remodelling, transcript<b>ion</b>al activation) and behavioural adaptation · The mechanisms ...
Keywords: stressful events | stress | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis | autonomic nervous system | glucocorticoid | signalling pathways
 
  Dr Claire Rice
Post(s): Consultant Senior Lecturer in Multiple Sclerosis Neurology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... concerns surrounding use of embryonic tissue, would avoid reject<b>ion</b> and are relatively easy to obtain. I am isolating stem cells ...
Keywords: stem cells | disease | transplant material | human bone marrow
 
  Professor Arthur Richards
Post(s): Professor of Robotics and Control, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: My work develops mathematical methods to control the movement of aircraft and spacecraft. The goal is to make them more...
Keywords: robust model predictive control | control of autonomous vehicles | distributed control | trajectory optimization | air traffic management | spacecraft control | unmanned air vehicles
 
  Dr Ian Richardson
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: ... post-mortem events controlling meat quality including texture, composit<b>ion</b> and sensory analysis. Recent areas of research include fatty ...
Keywords: meat science | meat quality | meat composition | packaging | shelf life | waste reduction | sensory analysis
 
  Dr Tom Richardson
Post(s): Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Senior Lecturer in Flight Mechanics, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... ranging from classical flight control up to high-level decis<b>ion</b>-making and autonomy. Recently I have been working with members ...
Keywords: flight control | flight mechanics | unmanned air vehicles | UAV
 
  Professor Jeremy Rickard
Post(s): Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: -Modular representat<b>ion</b> theory of finite groups and related areas. -Homological algebra. -Representation ...
Keywords: representation theory
 
  Dr Miguel Rico-Ramirez
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Radar Hydrology and Hydroinformatics, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: My main research interests are the applicat<b>ion</b> of digital signal processing techniques to remote sensing, ...
Keywords: remote sensing | digital signal processing | weather radar systems | vertical radar reflectivity | precipitation events | dual-polarization radar
 
  Professor Andy Ridgwell
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: The global carbon cycle and regulat<b>ion</b> of atmospheric CO2; past, present, and future. Interaction ...
Keywords: climate change | global warming | ocean acidification | glacial | geoengineering | carbon cycle | CO2 | global biogeochemical cycles
 
  Professor Julian Rivers
Post(s): Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... research interests lie mainly in the area of legal and constitut<b>ion</b>al theory, with a particular interest in the legal regulation ...
Keywords: legal & constitutional theory | legal regulation of religions
 
  Professor Jonathan Robbins
Post(s): Head of School, School of Mathematics
Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... crystals, particularly in confined polyhedral geometries; applicat<b>ion</b>s to displays. Partial Differential Equations: energy and ...
Keywords: materials science | liquid crystals | partial differential equations | quantum chaos | Maslov indices | nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
 
  Professor Daniel Robert
Post(s): Professor of Bionanoscience, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... comparative study of the behavioural biology, biomechanics and evolut<b>ion</b> of auditory systems. Audition is investigated with regard to ...
Keywords: behavioural biology | biomechanics | evolution | auditory systems | sensory adaptation | hearing | insects
 
  Professor Alan Roberts
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences
Emeritus Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: Funct<b>ion</b> of simple nervous systems of invertebrates like worms and lobsters ...
Keywords: simple nervous systems | invertebrates
 
  Professor Nicholas Roberts
Post(s): Professor of Sensory Ecology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: I am primarily interested the detect<b>ion</b> of light and colour in nature. My research is focused on investigating ...
Keywords: animal vision | light and colour in nature | polarized light | photoreceptor biology | stomatopods / mantis shrimps
 
  Professor Peter Roberts
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... years experience of investigating drugs affecting neurotransmiss<b>ion</b> in the brain. Particular interest is how dysfunction of ...
Keywords: neurodegenerative diseases | drugs and the brain | drugs
 
  Dr Douglas Robinson
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... terms of equilibrium order and/or kinetically-controlled react<b>ion</b> progress. Identifying the character of the controlling process ...
Keywords: metamorphism | mineralogical changes | geochemical changes | crustal development | crust | the Earth | rocks
 
  Professor Emma Robinson
Post(s): Professor of Psychopharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... animals, to study the cause and treatment of psychiatric condit<b>ion</b>s where emotional changes are an important feature e.g. depression ...
Keywords: neurochemical mediators | neural mediators | psychiatric disorders | behavioural studies | neuropharmacology | neurochemical systems | behaviour | psychiatric conditions
 
  Professor Laura Robinson
Post(s): Professor of Geochemistry, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... Pleistocene climate change events -Palaeoclimate reconstruct<b>ion</b>s -Impact of weathering on the ocean and climate -Biomineralization -U-series ...
Keywords: pleistocene | paleoclimate reconstructions | biomineralisation | climate | ocean
 
  Professor Katharine Robson Brown
Post(s): Director of the Jean Golding Institute, Research and Enterprise Development
Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... This is an NHS appointment. The Deanery delivers medical educat<b>ion</b> to postgraduate doctors in the Severn region, and my responsibilities ...
Keywords: human evolution, and functional anatomy at the level of microstructure | osteoarchaeology, and the african diaspora | postcranial morphological variation within modern human populations | biomechanics of the spine | microct technology and its application to archaeology and anthropology | impact of tissue regulation on research | public display of archaeological human remains in the museums, galleries and university sectors
 
  Professor Chris Rogers
Post(s): Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... centres and (c) evaluating the benefit of heart transplantat<b>ion</b> compared to medical therapy for patients with different risk ...
Keywords: surgery | heart surgery | heart transplantation | Cox regression modelling | lung transplantation | low volume operations
 
  Professor Peter Rogers
Post(s): Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: ... Broadly speaking, my current research is concerned with nutrit<b>ion</b> and behaviour, and involves fundamental and applied studies, ...
Keywords: weight control | food choice | nutrition, health and behaviour | psychopharmacology | caffeine | craving and addiction | human classical conditioning | mood and cognitive performance
 
  Dr Paco Romero Salvado
Post(s): Reader in Modern Spanish History, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: ... Spanish Civil War. I have written extensively on the transit<b>ion</b> from elite to mass politics, the post First World War crisis ...
Keywords: Spanish Civil War | modern Spanish history | modern Spanish politics | Left-wing social and political mobilization | state identity
 
  Dr Nicola Rooney
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow & Programme Director of Global Wildlife Health, Bristol Veterinary School
Teaching Fellow, Farm Animal Science
Areas of expertise: I am interested in applied aspects of the interact<b>ion</b>s between humans and animals including the follow areas: • ...
Keywords: animals | interactions between humans and animals | animal welfare | dogs | domestic animals | play behaviour | working dogs | breeds of domestic dog
 
  Professor Judy Rorison
Post(s): Professor of Optoelectronics, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... member of the Photonics Group within the Centre for Communicat<b>ion</b>s Research. My Research focusses on semiconductor materials ...
Keywords: semicondutor materials and devices | edge-emitting and vcsels | highly-mismatched alloys and quantum dot materials | electronic transport | optoelectronics
 
  Dr Jo Rose
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Research Interests Collaborative decis<b>ion</b> making; inter-professional working; partnerships Biography I ...
Keywords: collaborative decision making | inter-professional working | partnerships | cooperative decision making | inter-professional collaboration | school effectiveness | teacher effectiveness | teacher professional development.
 
  Professor Jonathan Rossiter
Post(s): Professor of Robotics, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... sensors, to high level artificial intelligence, including percept<b>ion</b>, cognition and reasoning. I have substantial experience ...
Keywords: robotics | artificial muscles | electroactive polymers | bio-mimetics | artificial intelligence | medical Imaging | MRI
 
  Professor Jonathan Rougier
Post(s): Professor of Statistical Science, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: Model-based inference for complex systems: combining observat<b>ion</b>al data, evaluations of models, and expert judgements. How ...
Keywords: computer experiment | complex systems | uncertainty | climate | natural hazards
 
  Dr Angela Rowe
Post(s): Reader in Social Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: I study the way that prior close relat<b>ion</b>ship experiences (represented in attachment relational schemas) ...
Keywords: adult attachment | love | personal relationships
 
  Professor CP Royall
Post(s): Professor of Chemical Physics, School of Physics
Professor of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... Fellow independent researcher. I tackle key outstanding quest<b>ion</b>s in condensed matter by direct visualisation of local phenomena: ...
Keywords: soft matter and statistical mechanics | colloid and interface science
 
  Dr Misha Rudnev
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... research profile embraces problems that lie at the intersect<b>ion</b> of harmonic analysis, geometric and additive combinatorics, ...
Keywords: number theory | geometric incidence theory | Hamiltonian dynamics | integrability | harmonic analysis | geometrics
 
  Dr Chris Russell
Post(s): Reader, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... and exciting systems in their own right. We draw our inspirat<b>ion</b> from a range of sources, some targeted (such as trying to engineer ...
Keywords: new molecules | novel synthetic methods | synthetic methods | molecules | ligand design | catalysis
 
  Dr Alison Rust
Post(s): Reader in Physical Volcanology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: I study the dynamics of volcanic processes using a combinat<b>ion</b> of laboratory experiments, theoretical fluid mechanics, fieldwork ...
Keywords: volcanic processes | petrology | theoretical fluid mechanics | crystals | volcanic problems | magma convection | volcanoes
 
  Dr Hind Saidani-Scott
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Thermodynamics; absorpt<b>ion</b> of moisture by building materials and artefacts.
Keywords: design | process engineering
 
  Professor Chris Salisbury
Post(s): Professor in Primary Health Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: Improving General Practice, including access to care, the quality of care and patients' experience of care.
Keywords: primary health care | general practice | organisation of health care | multimorbidity
 
  Dr Andy Salmon
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... Physiology in Bristol, leading to a PhD examining intrinsic regulat<b>ion</b> of glomerular permeability. I am currently Honorary Clinical ...
Keywords: permeability | glycocalyx | glomerulus
 
  Dr Isabella Sandwell
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: ... history of the Roman period, particularly religious interact<b>ion</b> between Christians and non-Christians in late antiquity. I ...
Keywords: Romans | religious history | religion | Greek history | Roman history | anthropology
 
  Professor Jonathan Sandy
Post(s): Dean of Health Sciences, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: ... and palate. Led the work in 1996 which informed centralisat<b>ion</b> of cleft services in the UK and this subsequently resulted ...
Keywords: cleft lip and palate
 
  Professor George Sanford
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of East European Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: Academic specialisat<b>ion</b> in Politics Department at Bristol University since 1966, including ...
Keywords: Eastern Europe | Poland | nationalism | European governments | English nationalism | massacre
 
  Dr Andrei Sarua
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... nitride FET structures and their electro-optical charaterisat<b>ion</b>. -Optical spectroscopy on wide band-gap III-V nitride semiconductors. ...
Keywords: applied spectroscopy
 
  Dr Simon Satchell
Post(s): Reader in Renal Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... glomerular capillary wall which constitutes the glomerular filtrat<b>ion</b> barrier. We are working to understand in detail the contribution ...
Keywords: glomerular endothelial cells | glomerular capillary wall | glomerular filtration barrier | disease | glycocalyx
 
  Professor Nicholas Saunders
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Areas of expertise: ... Archaeological Project (GARP) This involves survey and excavat<b>ion</b> of conflict landscapes, trenches, and standing buildings along ...
Keywords: excavation | conflict landscapes | culture | conflict | trench art | ethnicity | animal symbolism
 
  Professor Nigel Savery
Post(s): Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: Transcript<b>ion</b> and DNA repair. Genomes are replicated, repaired, modified ...
Keywords: transcription | DNA repair | DNA | genomes | protein | genes
 
  Dr Theo Savvas
Post(s): Lecturer, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... post-1945 American literature. I am interested in the relat<b>ion</b>ship between history and fiction, and have published a number ...
Keywords: American literature | Postmodernism | multi-ethnic literature | transnationalism in literature | history and fiction | contemporary literature
 
  Professor Fabrizio Scarpa
Post(s): Professor of Smart Materials & Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... model and produce auxetics - solids exhibiting unusual deformat<b>ion</b> mechanisms - they expand in all directions when pulled in only ...
Keywords: auxetics | smart materials | honeycombs | foams | vibroacoustics | multiphysics
 
  Professor Daniela Schmidt
Post(s): Professor in Palaeobiology, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... primarily employs marine microfossils to study the interrelat<b>ion</b>ships between palaeoclimatic changes and the ecology and evolution ...
Keywords: ocean acidification | climate change | evolution | palaeoceanography
 
  Professor Walther Schwarzacher
Post(s): Professor of Physics, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... simple and inexpensive methods, especially electrochemical deposit<b>ion</b> (electrodeposition), to prepare ultrathin films and nanostructures ...
Keywords: nanomagnetism | electrodeposition | surface roughness
 
  Professor Tom Scott
Post(s): Professor in Materials, Interface Analysis Centre
Areas of expertise: ... addresses scientific problems directly related to both operat<b>ion</b>al and environmental safety issues regarding nuclear energy ...
Keywords: nuclear waste disposal | nuclear waste remediation | uranium corrosion | environmental remediation | air-sensitive metals analysis | Iron and iron oxides | nanoparticles
 
  Professor Nick Scott-Samuel
Post(s): Professor, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: Vis<b>ion</b>, camouflage.
Keywords: visual perception | camouflage | estimation of number
 
  Dr Wendel Sebastian
Post(s): Research Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... behaviours of structures, algebraic analysis, numerical computat<b>ion</b>s and laboratory experiments incorporating novel instrumentation ...
Keywords: theories for nonlinear behaviours of structures | algebraic analysis | numerical computations | laboratory experiments incorporating novel instrumentation layouts | fibre reinforced polymers (frps)
 
  Dr Simon Sebire
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity & Public Health, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... health behaviours of children and adolescents and the prevent<b>ion</b> of paediatric obesity through intervention strategies. My research ...
Keywords: physical activity | health behaviours | children | obesity | childhood obesity | health behaviours | motivation | exercise
 
  Dr Annela Seddon
Post(s): Senior Lecturer and Director of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: My areas of expertise include the fabricat<b>ion</b> of materials on the nanoscale, in particular, materials influenced ...
Keywords: nanoscience | nanotechnology | biophysics | interdisciplinary research
 
  Dr Lucy Selman
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... interest in how to communicate about death and dying and make decis<b>ion</b>s about future care. I have methodological expertise in qualitative ...
Keywords: randomised controlled trials | palliative care | end of life care | communication about death and dying | decision-making in advanced disease
 
  Professor Julie Selwyn
Post(s): Professor of Child and Family Social Work, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: The adopt<b>ion</b> of looked after children
Keywords: adoption | fostering | kinship care
 
  Dr Richard Sessions
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... modelling is a very useful tool in the design and interpretat<b>ion</b> of experiments. This is well recognised in Bristol, where most ...
Keywords: molecular modelling | bioinformatics | homology modelling | drug design | protein | protein structure prediction
 
  Professor Dudley Shallcross
Post(s): Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Atmospheric chemistry, including the causes and impact of air pollut<b>ion</b> on urban, regional and global scales and the causes, impact ...
Keywords: promotion of Science to the public | transition from A-level science to university | primary, second and tertiary science education | air pollution | global warming | chemical sensors | analytical chemistry | stratospheric ozone
 
  Dr Mohammed Sharif
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... (OA) is the most common joint disease affecting over 100 mill<b>ion</b> people in EU countries. The disease frequently affects the ...
Keywords: osteoarthritis | joint disease | joints | joint tissue | loss of cartilage | disability | disease
 
  Professor Simon Shaw-Miller
Post(s): Chair in the History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: Relat<b>ion</b>ships between art and music Modernism Synaesthesia Interdisciplinarity
Keywords: art | art and music | Modernism | interdisciplinarity | synaesthesia
 
  Professor David Sheppard
Post(s): Professor of Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... pathway for salt movement and controls the quantity and composit<b>ion</b> of fluids in ducts and tubes. In my studies of CFTR, I have ...
Keywords: cystic fibrosis | CFTR | chloride ion channels | epithelial ion transport | drug therapy
 
  Dr Siobhan Shilton
Post(s): Reader in French Studies and the Visual Arts, Department of French
Areas of expertise: ... have a particular interest in visual and textual representat<b>ion</b>s of journeys between the cultures of the Maghreb, sub-Saharan ...
Keywords: francophone postcolonial studies | postcolonialism | journeys | exile | colonialism | travel | photography | performance art
 
  Dr Anton Shterenlikht
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Computat<b>ion</b>al solid mechanics, numerical methods, coupled cellular automata ...
Keywords: computational solid mechanics | fracture | multi-scale modelling | constitutive modelling | plasticity and damage
 
  Professor Stuart Siddell
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on the structure and funct<b>ion</b> of the coronavirus replication machinery with the goal of identifying ...
Keywords: molecular biology | genetics & pathogenesis of coronaviruses | diagnosis of feline coronavirus diseases | development of coronavirus antivirals & vaccines
 
  Dr Martin Sieber
Post(s): Reader in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: My main interests lie in asymptotical approximat<b>ion</b>s for wave theories that are valid in the limit of short wave ...
Keywords: wave theories | quantum mechanics | geometrical optics | quantum chaos | random matrix theory | diffraction | wavefunctions | microlasers
 
  Professor Tom Simpson
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry
Senior Research Fellow in Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... is central to therapeutic approaches to the problem of reject<b>ion</b> in organ transplantation, and which is also being developed ...
Keywords: polyketides | compounds | lovastatin | avermectin | rapamycin | erythromycin | strobilurin
 
  Mr Jon Sims Williams
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: My work is largely educat<b>ion</b>al. I am developing a database of questions that are used to ...
Keywords: expert systems | databases | risk analysis
 
  Ms Ann Singleton
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow in School for Policy Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: I am an expert on European asylum and migrat<b>ion</b> statistics and in interpreting these statistics in relation ...
Keywords: Europe | asylum | migration
 
  Dr Andy Skinner
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: Digital phenotyping Face percept<b>ion</b> Haptic perception
Keywords: Digital phenotyping
 
  Dr Robert Skinner
Post(s): Lecturer, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... research was on the role of religious activists in the format<b>ion</b> of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement during the 1950s. These ...
Keywords: religious activists | apartheid | anti-apartheid | colonial experience | decolonisation
 
  Professor Achilles Skordas
Post(s): Professor of International Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: I have published on issues of general internat<b>ion</b>al law, sociology of international law, and international and ...
Keywords: sources of international law | use of force | regime theory | sociology of international law | immigration law and policy | asylum law and policy | foreign policy
 
  Professor Nigel Smart
Post(s): Professor of Cryptology, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... and primitive, especially digital signature algorithms, encrypt<b>ion</b> algorithms and key exchange.
Keywords: cryptography | number theory | elliptic curves
 
  Professor Brendan Smith
Post(s): Professor of Medieval History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: I research and write about English intervent<b>ion</b> in medieval Ireland, which began in 1170. I am interested ...
Keywords: medieval Ireland | frontier societies | colonial history | Anglo-Irish relations | religion and politics
 
  Professor Frank Smith
Post(s): Professor of Vascular Surgery and Surgical Education, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... Jeremy, at the Bristol Heart Institute, investigating attenuat<b>ion</b> of medial and intimal hyperplasia in vein bypass grafts (a ...
Keywords: ischaemic heart | peripheral vascular disease | hyperplasia | vein bypass grafts | vascular disease | vein grafts
 
  Professor Sarah Smith
Post(s): Professor, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... public policy including pro-social behaviour, retirement and pens<b>ion</b>s.
Keywords: centre for market and public organisation | applied public policy analysis | applied microeconomics
 
  Dr Vincent Smith
Post(s): Honorary Visiting Lecturer, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... (Illinois, USA.) My particular interest is in Weak Interact<b>ion</b>s, especially the properties of short-lived strange particles ...
Keywords: elementary particle physics | nuclear physics | weak interactions | hyperons
 
  Dr Nina Snaith
Post(s): Reader, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: My main interest is the connect<b>ion</b> between Random Matrix Theory and certain number theoretical ...
Keywords: random matrix theory | theoretical functions | Riemann zeta function | L-functions | statistics
 
  Dr Muhammed Sohail
Post(s): Reader in Histopathology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: Molecular markers in breast cancer; Fascin express<b>ion</b> in urological cancer; Breast and Uropathology.
Keywords: pathology | molecular markers in breast cancer | fascin expression in urological cancer | breast and uropathology
 
  Professor Peter Soothill
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Fetal Medicine, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Prenatal diagnosis of fetal disease and malformat<b>ion</b>s and the management of these including fetal therapy.
Keywords: fetal medicine | prenatal diagnosis | fetal therapy | ultrasound in pregnancy | fetal abnormalities
 
  Professor Stephen Sparks
Post(s): Professorial Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... quantitative studies of geological processes using a combinat<b>ion</b> of field studies, laboratory experiments, analytical studies ...
Keywords: geological processes | volcanic processes | volcanoes | igneous processes | natural hazards | volcanology | volcanic eruptions
 
  Ms Michelle Spear
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow in Biomedical Professional Education, Centre for Applied Anatomy
Areas of expertise: Teaching and research in funct<b>ion</b>al and clinically applied anatomy. Assessment in anatomical ...
Keywords: Human Anatomy | Histology | Histopathology | Clinical Anatomy | Synovial Joints, especially hip, shoulder and knee | Topographical Anatomy | Functional Anatomy | Dissection
 
  Dr Jim Spencer
Post(s): Reader in Microbiology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: My current research centres around the applicat<b>ion</b> of rapid kinetic and crystallographic methods to study of the ...
Keywords: microbial pathogenesis | &#946;-lactams | carbapenems | fluoroquinolones | oxazolidinone linezolid
 
  Professor Judith Squires
Post(s): Pro Vice-Chancellor, Senior Team
Areas of expertise: ... therefore interested in UK policy issues including the representat<b>ion</b> of women, gender mainstreaming and equality policies.
Keywords: gender and citizenship | women in politics | democratic theory | equality and difference | feminist political theory
 
  Dr Martijn Stam
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... conducted research on various theoretical aspects of hash funct<b>ion</b>s for four years at EPFL in Switzerland. I am now a Computer ...
Keywords: cryptography
 
  Professor Bernard Stark
Post(s): Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... efficient power converters. I have worked on many collaborat<b>ion</b>s with industry and other universities and am keen to continue ...
Keywords: micro renewables | miniature power sources | optimise efficiency | complex systems
 
  Dr Bradley Stephens
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in French, Department of French
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on the recept<b>ion</b> and adaptation of French literature since the nineteenth century, ...
Keywords: French Literature since the Nineteenth Century | multimedia adaptation of literature | masculinity studies | Victor Hugo | Alexandre Dumas | Jean-Paul Sartre | politics and literature | John Steinbeck
 
  Professor David Stephens
Post(s): Professor of Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: The principle focus of our current work is the funct<b>ion</b> of the early secretory pathway in mammalian cells. We are seeking ...
Keywords: membrane traffic | mammalian cells | bioimaging | molecular mechanisms | secretion | microscopy | cell imaging | motor proteins
 
  Dr Brian Stollery
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, School of Psychological Science
Areas of expertise: My research interests cover the areas of occupat<b>ion</b>al health, human aging, functional change and individual differences. ...
Keywords: neurotoxicology | ageing | stress | risk perception
 
  Dr Emma Stone
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research forms part of the European Un<b>ion</b> funded project past4future. This project investigates the climate ...
Keywords: past4future | interglacials | climate change | ice sheets
 
  Professor Sarah Street
Post(s): Professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama, Department of Film and Television
Areas of expertise: ... historian based in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Televis<b>ion</b>. I have published widely in the area of British cinema over ...
Keywords: British cinema | film costume | set design | Hitchcock | film policy | economics of cinema | colour film aesthetics
 
  Professor Andrew Sturdy
Post(s): Professor in Management, Department of Management
Areas of expertise: Academic discipline: organisat<b>ion</b>al behaviour/studies. My main expertise lies in the spread ...
Keywords: management consultancy | management innovation / ideas | organisational change | management occupations | change agents | knowledge transfer | organisational culture management | internal consultants
 
  Mr Saadeh Suleiman
Post(s): Professor of Cardiac Physiology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... cardiac injury in order to improve techniques of myocardial protect<b>ion</b> during open-heart surgery. The following are specific areas ...
Keywords: myocardial protection | cardiac surgery techniques | cardioplegia | paediatric open heart surgery | cardiac amino acids | ischaemia/reperfusion
 
  Dr Sarah Sullivan
Post(s): Research Fellow (Quantitative in Primary Care), Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... particular using different statistical methods to investigate associat<b>ion</b>s between risk factors and psychosis onset as well as outcomes ...
Keywords: first episode psychosis | psychosis prediction | risk factors for psychosis | outcomes of psychosis | psychosis continuum | general population psychotic experiences
 
  Ms Paula Surridge
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... interested in social and political values, both their links to posit<b>ion</b>s in socio-demographic space and their influence on political ...
Keywords: voting behaviour | social and political attitudes | Elections | social class | education | British politics | Brexit
 
  Professor Rosamund Sutherland
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... (1998-2000) and followed up within the ESRC InterActive Educat<b>ion</b> Project (2000-2004). The third strand of research relates to ...
Keywords: interactive education | teaching & learning in the information age
 
  Dr David Sweeting
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... conducted research on local political leadership, citizen participat<b>ion</b>, and local councillors, both in the UK and Europe.
Keywords: local government | local councillors | directly elected mayors | local government in Europe
 
  Professor Philip Syrpis
Post(s): Professor of EU Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... policy and internal market law, and on the broader constitut<b>ion</b>al issues facing the European Union. I have published a monograph ...
Keywords: European social policy | European Union constitutional law | LNAT | University Admissions | General Election 2017
 
  Dr Robert Szalai
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Areas of expertise: -Nonlinear dynamics -Non-smooth systems -Bifurcat<b>ion</b> theory -Machine-tool vibrations -Delay equation -Mammalian ...
Keywords: applied mathematics | mechanical engineering
 
  Professor Mark Szczelkun
Post(s): Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... molecular motors on DNA. Many genetic processes require the act<b>ion</b> of large protein machines that act on DNA as a function of ...
Keywords: molecular motors | DNA | genetic processes | protein | ATP hydrolysis | cleavage of DNA | restriction enzymes | repair of DNA
 
  Dr Vladislav Tadic
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... research interests lie on the interface of statistics, optimizat<b>ion</b> and Monte Carlo simulations, and are tightly connected to the ...
Keywords: statistics | Monte Carlo simulations | Monte Carlo methods | stochastic optimization | stochastic dynamic programming | reinforcement learning
 
  Professor John Tarlton
Post(s): Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Veterinary Pathology and Infection and Immunity
Areas of expertise: Research Interests: Tissue repair and regenerat<b>ion</b>, inflammatory bowel disease, stem cell biology, tissue engineering, ...
Keywords: tissue repair | tissue regeneration | inflammatory bowel disease | stem cell biology | tissue | joint disorders | cattle lameness | animal welfare
 
  Professor Jeremy Tavare
Post(s): Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences, Life Sciences Faculty Office
Areas of expertise: ... glucose uptake into fat and muscle cells. We know that the activat<b>ion</b> of protein kinase B (Akt) is central to this effect of insulin, ...
Keywords: glucose uptake | insulin action | insulin signal transduction | molecular biology | advanced cell biology | high throughput methods for signal transduction analysis
 
  Dr Caroline Taylor
Post(s): Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: My main areas of interest are in nutrit<b>ion</b> and environmental epidemiology. My main focus at present is ...
Keywords: Toxic metals | lead and game | nutrition | childhood | pregnancy | mercury and fish | arsenic and rice | Picky eating
 
  Professor Colin Taylor
Post(s): Professor of Earthquake Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... environment systems over their life-cycle (design to decommiss<b>ion</b>ing). Applying these ideas to assessing the impact of climate ...
Keywords: earthquake engineering | long span bridges | vibrations and dynamics | dams | climate change impact | complex infrastructures | systems modelling | infrastructure renewal and performance
 
  Professor Ruud ter Meulen
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... and evidence-based medicine. I have directed several internat<b>ion</b>al research projects, including large-scale projects funded ...
Keywords: justice in health care | ethics of research | care of older people | evidence-based medicine | bioethics
 
  Dr Anja Teschemacher
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: Modulat<b>ion</b> of Neurotransmitter Release My main interests are the intracellular ...
Keywords: modulation of neurotransmitter release | intracellular signalling mechanisms | release of neurotransmitters | Neurotransmitters | central neurones | neuromodulators | noradrenaline | intracellular second messenger pathways
 
  Dr Raf Theunissen
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... research projects are related to the study of optical wing deformat<b>ion</b> techniques, bird wing aerodynamics and wind turbine aerodynamics.
Keywords: experimental fluid dynamics | image-based flow velocity measurement | particle image velocimetry | laser doppler velocimetry
 
  Dr Anita Thomas
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: I am a scientist who is interested in discovering new methods of treating cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis,...
Keywords: cardiovascular disease | targeted drug delivery | nanotechnology | gene therapy | atherosclerosis | thrombosis | inflammation | vein graft
 
  Dr Clare Thomas
Post(s): Honorary Senior Research Associate, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... GPs. Previously I have conducted a study about women's decis<b>ion</b> making for mode of delivery after previous caesarean section. ...
Keywords: randomised controlled trials | qualitative research methods | health psychology
 
  Professor Sally Thomas
Post(s): Professor of Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Educat<b>ion</b>al quality and improvement, school effectiveness, evaluation ...
Keywords: educational quality | school effectiveness and improvement | learning communities | multilevel modelling | evaluation | China | citizenship
 
  Dr James Thompson
Post(s): Reader in Modern British History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... am interested in the development of ideas about 'public opin<b>ion</b>' and changing conceptions of the British political system. ...
Keywords: modern British politics | history of liberalism | history of political 'spin' | the idea of 'public opinion' | political propaganda and publicity | political posters | history of Labour party | history of socialism
 
  Professor Mark Thompson
Post(s): Professor in Quantum Photonics, School of Physics
Professor in Quantum Photonics, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... properties of light to encode, transmit and process informat<b>ion</b>. My research interests are in the development of novel ...
Keywords: physics | engineering | photonics | quantum | lasers
 
  Professor Trevor Thompson
Post(s): Reader in Healthcare Education, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... players, process and outcome". This is a qualitative explorat<b>ion</b> of what I term the "popularity paradox" - the fact that homeopathy ...
Keywords: homeopathy | popularity paradox | homeopathic care | therapeutic consultation | placebo effect | therapeutic approaches
 
  Professor Marianne Thoresen
Post(s): Professor of Neonatal Neuroscience, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... paediatrician in Oslo. I became interested in cerebral protect<b>ion</b> from hypothermia in 1990 and was, in 1995, the first to show ...
Keywords: effect of temperature on the development of brain injury | cellular mechanisms of hypothermic neuroprotection | drugs and hypothermia | protective strategies against posthaemhorrhagic ventricular dilatation
 
  Dr Michael Tierney
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of expertise: My current research areas are (1) adsorpt<b>ion</b> chillers, including build of a solar chiller and development ...
Keywords: Heat operated refrigeration | Thermo-economics | Heat utilisation | heat and mass transfer | Computational Fluid Dynamics (proprietary codes)
 
  Professor Leon Tikly
Post(s): Professor in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: I have expertise in the educat<b>ion</b>al achievement of black and minority ethnic pupils in the UK. ...
Keywords: ethnic minority achievement in education | African education | education quality | South African education | globalisation and education
 
  Dr Sue Timmis
Post(s): Reader in Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... interests centre on the role of digital tools in mediating communicat<b>ion</b>s and collaborative work across formal and informal settings, ...
Keywords: technology enhanced learning | Student experience of higher education | young people & ICT | Boundaries between formal & informal learning | ICT and informal learning | ICT for collaboration, interaction and identity | cultural historical activity theory | computer supported collaborative learning
 
  Professor Richard Tinsley
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... parasites, especially the reproductive biology and transmiss<b>ion</b> of monogenean helminths. I am also interested in environmental ...
Keywords: parasites | amphibians | xenophus | Southern Spadefoot Toads | host & parasite co-evolution
 
  Dr Branislav Titurus
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Dynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... primary research focus is on the semi-active fluid-based vibrat<b>ion</b> control devices with particular focus on their design, performance, ...
Keywords: helicopter rotor dynamics | helicopter vibration control | semi-active dampers | vibration-based damage detection and model updating | regularisation in inverse problems in vibration | identification in structural dynamics and advanced tests | experimental modal analysis
 
  Professor Jonathan Tobias
Post(s): Professor of Rheumatology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: Causes, treatment and prevent<b>ion</b> of osteoporosis (see Academic Rheumatology, Musculoskeletal ...
Keywords: osteoporosis | bone development
 
  Dr Andrew Tometzki
Post(s): Senior Clinical Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. My specialties are intervent<b>ion</b>al cardiac catheterisation for congenital and structural heart ...
Keywords: paediatric cardiology | interventional cardiac catheterisation for congenital & structural heart disease | atrial septal defects | ventricular septal defects | patent arterial ducts | foetal cardiology
 
  Dr Domingo Tortonese
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, Centre for Applied Anatomy
Areas of expertise: My research focuses on the neuroendocrine regulat<b>ion</b> of fertility. The specific aim is to identify the signal transduction ...
Keywords: fertility | signal transduction pathways | gonadotrophin releasing hormone | gonadotrophin secretion | temporal changes in fertility | hypothalamus | pituitary gland
 
  Dr Yves Tourigny
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Numerical Analysis, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... the past, my research has been largely in the field of tradit<b>ion</b>al numerical analysis, particularly computational partial differential ...
Keywords: computing | numerical analysis | computational partial differential equations | series summation | continued fractions | products of random matrices | cryptography
 
  Dr Julie Townsend
Post(s): Senior Teaching Fellow, Centre for Applied Anatomy
Areas of expertise: Research interests: Investigat<b>ion</b>s on the intra-pituitary control of fertility, with particular ...
Keywords: intra-pituitary control of fertility | fertility | gonadotroph cells | folliculostellate cells | lactotroph cells | breeding | control of fertility
 
  Dr Ash Toye
Post(s): Reader in Cell Biology, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... with Prof. Owen Jones (University of Bristol) was on the generat<b>ion</b> of reactive oxygen species by neutrophils and non-phagocytic ...
Keywords: the bicarbonate transporter protein family: trafficking & molecular interactions in health and disease
 
  Dr Richard Trask
Post(s): Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Composites research group, working in the field of Multifunct<b>ion</b>al Composites. - Self-healing of space composite structures ...
Keywords: aerospace composites | multifunctional composites | self-healing system | space composite structures | functional repair components | biometic plana
 
  Dr Theo Tryfonas
Post(s): Reader in Smart Cities, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... conducting research work within the following fields: § Applicat<b>ion</b>s of computing in civil engineering systems - urban information ...
Keywords: computing in civil engineering systems | urban information infrastructures design | wireless sensors | sustainable development | security engineering and forensic computing | higher education
 
  Dr Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
Post(s): Research Associate, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... analysing mathematical models of calcium dynamics and regulat<b>ion</b> in developing inner hair cells as well as dendritic morphogenesis. ...
Keywords: mathematical biology | theoretical neuroscience | mathematical modelling | dynamical systems | bifurcation analysis | coupled nonlinear oscillators
 
  Dr Emma Turner
Post(s): Senior Research Associate, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... impact of cancer on patient and supportive others; Cognitive funct<b>ion</b>; Linkage to routine electronic data sources; Orthographic similarity ...
Keywords: prostate cancer
 
  Dr Katrina Turner
Post(s): Reader in Primary Care Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... research interests include childhood obesity, diabetes, depress<b>ion</b>, and sexual health.
Keywords: qualitative research methods | type 2 diabetes | childhood obesity | depression | sexual health
 
  Dr Katy Turner
Post(s): Reader in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bristol Veterinary School
Areas of expertise: ... modeller. I have worked on analysing the impact of health intervent<b>ion</b>s using various approaches, including user friendly tools for ...
Keywords: sexually transmitted infection | mathematical modelling | infectious diseases | chlamydia | antibiotic resistance | gonorrhoea | diagnostic tests | public health
 
  Dr Helene Turon
Post(s): Reader in Economics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... market models. My recent research focuses on labour reallocat<b>ion</b>, the public-private pay gap, and earnings dynamics.
Keywords: labour economics | labour market models | labour reallocation | public-private pay gap | earnings dynamics
 
  Professor Corinna Ulcigrai
Post(s): Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... properties of flows on surfaces and interval exchange transformat<b>ion</b>s and I am interested in the dynamics in moduli spaces of flat ...
Keywords: ergodic theory | Teichmueller dynamics | spectral properties | flows on surfaces | interval exchange transformations | diophantine approximation | number theory
 
  Professor James Uney
Post(s): Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... are used to investigate the genes that regulate neuronal funct<b>ion</b>. This work includes: (i) identifying the changes in gene expression ...
Keywords: molecular neuroscience | huntington's disease | Alzheimer's disease | apoptosis | neurodegeneration
 
  Professor Tim Unwin
Post(s): Emeritus Professor of French, Department of French
Areas of expertise: ... about the nature of writing. This enquiry includes the relat<b>ion</b>ship between literature and science, literature and pedagogy, ...
Keywords: Flaubert | Verne | Maupassant | nineteenth-century France | French novel | nineteenth-century travel | nineteenth-century technology | narrative theory
 
  Professor Michael Uren
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: My experience lies principally in design, fabricat<b>ion</b>, characterisation and modelling of field effect transistors. ...
Keywords: gallium nitride HFETs | silicon carbide power devices
 
  Dr Maria Usowicz
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... calcium channels in the brain. I am investigating how the funct<b>ion</b>al and molecular properties of P-type channels vary between ...
Keywords: cerbellar slices | patch-clamp recording | tonic neurotransmission | cerebellar purkinje cells | cerebellar granule cells | tonic inhibition | alternative splicing | calcium channels; synaptic transmission; cerebellum
 
  Professor Paul Valdes
Post(s): Professor of Physical Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... time scales from the last century to the last few hundred mill<b>ion</b> years) and predicting future climate change, especially changes ...
Keywords: climate change | environment | weather | meteorology | palaeoclimate | storm tracks | global warming | E-Science
 
  Professor Michiel van den Berg
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... study of the elliptic and parabolic partial differential equat<b>ion</b>s on Riemannian manifolds, and the relation of the asymptotic ...
Keywords: parabolic partial differential equations | elliptic partial differential equations | Riemannian manifolds | spectral functions | geometry | Wiener sausages
 
  Dr Marc Van der Kamp
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: Computer simulat<b>ion</b> of proteins and enzymes, particularly focussing on combined ...
Keywords: molecular modelling | molecular dynamics | enzyme reactions | quantum mechanics / molecular mechanics | QM/MM
 
  Dr Jeroen Van Duijneveldt
Post(s): Reader in Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... between simple liquids and solids, for instance colloidal suspens<b>ion</b>s, emulsions, liquid crystals, and polymers. This includes many ...
Keywords: soft condensed matter | colloids | polymers | liquid crystals | microscopy | computer simulation
 
  Dr Elspeth Van Veeren
Post(s): Lecturer in Political Science, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: The mobilizat<b>ion</b>, transformation, and demobilization of security publics; the ...
Keywords: American Politics | American security policies | American political culture | US foreign policy | politics | international relations | technology | mass fatalities
 
  Dr James Verdon
Post(s): Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... storage of greenhouse gases, monitoring hydro-fracture stimulat<b>ion</b>s for tight and shale gas, and in using numerical models to ...
Keywords: geophysics | shale gas | hydraulic fracture stimulation | carbon capture and storage | microseismic monitoring | seismic anisotropy
 
  Professor Paul Verkade
Post(s): Professor of Bioimaging, Life Sciences Faculty Office
Professor of Bioimaging, School of Biochemistry
Areas of expertise: ... proteins and transport these to the correct places for proper funct<b>ion</b>ing of the cell. Likewise they have to do this for signals (proteins) ...
Keywords: electron microscopy | bioimaging | cell biology | cell imaging | Intracellular trafficking | microscopy
 
  Professor Robert Vilain
Post(s): Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services
Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Department of German
Areas of expertise: ... are Modernism and the Avant-garde, Franco-German literary relat<b>ion</b>s, the relationship of literature and music and the history ...
Keywords: 19th- and 20th-century German and Austrian literature | poetry | German language | european literature | 19th and 20th-century French literature | comparative literature | The history of the book
 
  Professor Brian Vincent
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... monodisperse and surfactant-free "silicone" oil-in-water emuls<b>ion</b>s; a variety of core-shell systems, microemulsions, adsorption ...
Keywords: microgel particles | water emulsions | microemulsions | polymers | particle deposition
 
  Professor Mumtaz Virji
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: ... components in virulence. § Molecular mechanisms of interact<b>ion</b>s of Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae with ...
Keywords: Mechanisms of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis | surface components in virulence | mucosal pathogens and colonisers | mucosal colonisation by commensal neisserial species | meningococcal infection | Moraxella catarrhalis adhesin UspA1
 
  Professor Jemma Wadham
Post(s): Professor in Glaciology/Director of the Cabot Institute, School of Geographical Sciences
Areas of expertise: Geochemistry & hydrology of Arctic & Alpine reg<b>ion</b>s. Hydrochemistry of polythermal glaciers and chemical weathering ...
Keywords: geochemistry | hydrology | Arctic regions | alpine regions | glaciers | subglacial runoff
 
  Professor Thorsten Wagener
Post(s): Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... sustainable water management. Particular current interests are predict<b>ion</b>s in ungauged basins, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, ...
Keywords: hydrology | water resources management | floods | droughts | climate change impacts | environmental predictions | uncertainty and risk | higher education (in water-subjects especially)
 
  Professor Richard Wall
Post(s): Professor of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... (flies, fleas, lice, mites and ticks) which spend all or some port<b>ion</b> of their lives parasitising livestock, poultry or companion ...
Keywords: flies | lice | mites | maggots | fleas | pests | ectoparasites | cow dung
 
  Dr Lynne Walling
Post(s): Reader in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... of automorphic forms. I use automorphic forms to get informat<b>ion</b> about representation numbers of quadratic forms, and I use ...
Keywords: number theory | quadratic forms | automorphic forms | modular forms
 
  Professor Xiaojun Wang
Post(s): Professor of Operations Management, Department of Management
Areas of expertise: ... research interests include sustainable supply chain, innovat<b>ion</b>s in operations management, risk assessment, e-business approaches, ...
Keywords: Supply Chain Management | Operations Management | sustainable development | Eco-design | food traceability | risk assessment | Fuzzy Logic
 
  Dr Mohammed Wanous
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Engineering Management, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: Research interests include applicat<b>ion</b>s of Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy ...
Keywords: artificial neural networks | Fuzzy Logic | Neurofuzzy Logic | value systems | sustainable development | competitive tendering practice in civil engineering
 
  Professor Clea Warburton
Post(s): Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Head of School, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: ... research is currently focussed on the neural basis of recognit<b>ion</b> memory, our ability to recognise whether objects are novel ...
Keywords: memory | recognition | recognition memory | episodic memory | objects | ability to learn | neurotransmitter systems
 
  Professor Bogdan Warinschi
Post(s): Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Areas of expertise: ... in security and cryptography; more specifically, the connect<b>ion</b>s between symbolic and computational security analysis, rigourous ...
Keywords: security | cryptography
 
  Dr Paul Warr
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... Software (Reconfigurable) Radio and diversity-exploiting communicat<b>ion</b> systems; responsive linear amplifiers, flexible filters and ...
Keywords: radio frequency | Software-defined radio | cognative radio | Linear amplification | radio receivers | analogue integrated circuits | Cellular Neural Networks | electronics
 
  Dr Liz Washbrook
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods for Education, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... ESRC-funded project on fertility outcomes and housing transit<b>ion</b>s. Previous work was on the mechanisms linking early socioeconomic ...
Keywords: beliefs | behaviours and attitudes in educational attainment | children and families | fertility outcomes & housing transitions | children's cognitive & socio-emotional development | effects of policy environment & time periods on social mobility
 
  Professor Duncan Wass
Post(s): Professor of Catalysis, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... area of homogeneous catalysis using organometallic and coordinat<b>ion</b> compounds. Catalysis is the key tool used both industrially ...
Keywords: homogeneous catalysis | organometallic compounds | coordination compounds | catalysis | molecules | catalytic activity | clean chemical activity
 
  Dr Debbie Watson
Post(s): Reader in Childhood Studies, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: I am interested in conceptual construct<b>ion</b>s of social and emotional wellbeing for children and how adult ...
Keywords: Children's wellbeing | sociology of childhood | children | social and emotional wellbeing | performance methodologies | learning support | interprofessional working | creative research methods
 
  Dr Matthew Watson
Post(s): Reader in Natural Hazards, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research involves invers<b>ion</b> of remotely-sensed data to retrieve physical parameters of ...
Keywords: volcanic plumes | volcanoes | volcanic clouds | volcanic ash | volcanic sulphur dioxide | volcanic aerosols | geoengineering
 
  Dr Ian Wei
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History, Department of History (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... comparatively at the ways in which ideas have found institut<b>ion</b>al expression in universities in different cultures and periods.
Keywords: intellectual culture | social history | Western Europe | medieval society | theology | ideas
 
  Professor Philip Welch
Post(s): Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... Theory: strong axioms of infinity & large cardinals; interact<b>ion</b>s with the determinacy assumptions on infinite perfect information ...
Keywords: axiomatic set theory | mathematical logic | set theory | mathematical philosophy | models of computation
 
  Professor Jutta Weldes
Post(s): PGR Education Director, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My major areas of research are 1) internat<b>ion</b>al relations theory, particularly as applied to the critical ...
Keywords: international politics | US foreign policy | popular culture and world politics | May 4th 1970 at Kent State
 
  Dr Caragh Wells
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: ... include: The post-war Spanish novel; Contemporary Urban fict<b>ion</b> in post-war Spain and Catalonia; Women’s writing; Narrative ...
Keywords: post-war Spanish novel | fiction in post-war Spain | women’s writing | narrative theory | European novel | digressive fiction | Catalan literary criticism
 
  Professor Celia Wells
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: ... in corporate criminal liability. I am the author of Corporat<b>ion</b>s and Criminal Responsibility (2nd edition OUP 2001) and of ...
Keywords: criminal law | corporate criminal liability | organisational theory of corporate criminal liability | corporate criminal responsibility
 
  Professor Nicky Welton
Post(s): Professor in Statistical and Health Economic Modelling, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... prevalence data for toxoplasmosis; estimating Markov transit<b>ion</b> parameters from various data sources that may include different ...
Keywords: Bayesian statistics | toxoplasmosis | breast cancer screening | genetic testing | smoking | cluster randomised trial | mixed treatment comparison
 
  Dr Maximilian Werner
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... of seismic hazard and risk, including uncertainty quantificat<b>ion</b>. I use a combination of physical and stochastic numerical modeling ...
Keywords: earthquakes | seismic hazard and risk | forecasting and model validation | human induced earthquakes | resilience | natural disasters | natural hazards and risks | uncertainty quantification
 
  Dr Colin Western
Post(s): Reader in Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... ones. I have recently developed a laser system that has a resolut<b>ion</b> more than 10 times better than conventional pulsed dye lasers. ...
Keywords: laser spectroscopy | molecules | transient molecules | laser system | nuclei | hyperfine structure | spectroscopy
 
  Professor Fiona Whitaker
Post(s): Professor of Earth Sciences, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... numerical modeling, to provide a holistic understanding of the evolut<b>ion</b> of porosity-permeability in carbonate sediments from birth ...
Keywords: carbonate diagenesis | hydrogeology of islands | reactive transport modelling | dolomite | groundwater geochemistry
 
  Professor Martin White
Post(s): Emeritus Professor, Department of Theatre
Areas of expertise: Theatre history, particularly English of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Modern theatre. Theatre policy.
Keywords: theatre | drama | repertoire | theatre history | performance | theatre research | regional theatre | Shakespearean drama
 
  Dr Steve White
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... (atherosclerosis) the blood moves faster through the restricted port<b>ion</b> of the artery. The increase in blood flow can trigger changes ...
Keywords: endothelial erosion | cardiovascular disease | Heart attack | vascular cells | atherosclerosis | Gene thransfer | Functional Genomics | endothelial response to shear stress
 
  Dr Nick Whiteley
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... Carlo methods, especially sequential methods and their applicat<b>ion</b> to a variety of dynamical inference and optimisation problems.
Keywords: Monte Carlo computation | Bayesian modelling and analysis | statistical signal processing | time series
 
  Professor Mark Wickham-Jones
Post(s): Professor of Political Science, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... concerns the party's economic policy in government and opposit<b>ion</b>, its electoral strategy and its organisation, especially the ...
Keywords: British politics | New Labour | economic policy | electoral politics and General Election 2017 | political party organisation | Labour party foreign policy | gender and public policy | women's representation in parliament
 
  Dr Karoline Wiesner
Post(s): Reader in Complexity Sciences, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... research as follows: Nature stores and processes informat<b>ion</b> - it computes. Scientists have successfully described various ...
Keywords: complex systems | quantum information
 
  Professor Stephen Wiggins
Post(s): Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... and describing chaotic phenomena, local and global bifurcat<b>ion</b> theory, homoclinic and heteroclinic motions, Hamiltonian dynamics, ...
Keywords: chaos | nonlinearity | transport | mixing | dynamics | computation
 
  Dr Alastair Wilkins
Post(s): Reader in Neurology, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... projects are: • Role of the peroxisome in axonal degenerat<b>ion</b> and progressive MS • Degenerative ataxias and the potential ...
Keywords: multiple sclerosis | axonal degeneration | degenerative ataxias | stem cell neuroprotection | progressive multiple sclerosis
 
  Mr Alistair Williams
Post(s): Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS)
Areas of expertise: ... Professor Polly Bingley and have been closely involved in internat<b>ion</b>al efforts to standardise autoantibody measurement. Recently, ...
Keywords: diabetes | Insulin | insulin antibodies | childhood onset diabetes | autoantibody measurement | pancreatic imaging | pancreas size in diabetes
 
  Professor Ann Williams
Post(s): Professor of Experimental Oncology, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Areas of expertise: -Dynamism in transcript<b>ion</b> factor function in response to microenvironmental stress provides ...
Keywords: key events in early colorectal carcinogenesis | tumour microenvironment for gene expression & function | chemoprevention | Regulation of apoptosis. | NF-kappaB/Bcl-3 regulation in colorectal carcinogenesis, | Bag-1
 
  Dr Caroline Williams
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Areas of expertise: ... Spanish America, and I have a particular interest in the colonizat<b>ion</b> of indigenous groups on the frontiers of Spain’s empire in ...
Keywords: colonial Spanish America | colonization of indigenous groups | Atlantic World | Portuguese America | indigenous peoples | Spanish colonization | Miskito Coast
 
  Dr Beth Williamson
Post(s): Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Areas of expertise: ... My research has focused mainly on the iconography, funct<b>ion</b> and reception of artworks and cultural artefacts, and on the ...
Keywords: Medieval art | Medieval architecture | Virgin Mary | iconography | Marian liturgy | saints | sanctity | devotional imagery
 
  Dr Emma Williamson
Post(s): Reader in Gender Based Violence, School for Policy Studies
Areas of expertise: ... gender and violence over the past 15 years, most notably in relat<b>ion</b> to domestic violence and health. I am currently working on ...
Keywords: Domestic Abuse Perpetrators | domestic violence | sexual violence | support needs | violence against women | gender inequality | state responses to gendered violence | research ethics
 
  Professor Chris Willis
Post(s): Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... published >100 papers which centre upon:- • Structure elucidat<b>ion</b> and total synthesis of natural products • Design and synthesis ...
Keywords: natural products | bacteria | fungi | plants | compounds | biosynthetic pathways | enzyme mechanisms | amino acids
 
  Professor Chris Willmore
Post(s): Professor of Sustainability and Law, University of Bristol Law School
Areas of expertise: Carried out research for the Royal Commiss<b>ion</b> on Criminal Justice looking at the use of expert, notably forensic ...
Keywords: rights of way | countryside law | common land | environmental law | law and science interface | expert evidence | forensic science evidence
 
  Professor Deborah Wilson
Post(s): Professor of Public Policy and Management and Faculty Research Director, Department of Management
Areas of expertise: ... research within an economics framework on incentives, competit<b>ion</b> and performance management in the public sector, primarily ...
Keywords: performance management | public sector incentives | education outcomes
 
  Professor Frank Windmeijer
Post(s): Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise: ... estimators under many weak instruments asymptotics; technology diffus<b>ion</b> and health care productivity; and the effects of targeting ...
Keywords: microeconometrics | panel data econometrics | economics of health care | likelihood estimators | health care productivity | technology diffusion
 
  Professor Michael Wisnom
Post(s): Professor of Aerospace Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Areas of expertise: ... mainly concerned with failure of composites and the applicat<b>ion</b> of finite element analysis to understand and predict the behaviour ...
Keywords: failure of composites | composites | finite element analysis | failure mechanisms | fatigue | failure mechanisms | progressive damage modelling | failure criteria
 
  Dr James Wookey
Post(s): Reader in Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: My research is in theoretical and observat<b>ion</b>al seismology with an emphasis on seismic anisotropy. This property ...
Keywords: seismology | seismic anisotropy | mantle | the Earth | mantle
 
  Professor Trevor Wooley
Post(s): Professor of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... Fourier series that delivers asymptotic formulae for counting funct<b>ion</b>s associated with arithmetic problems. In the 21st Century, ...
Keywords: Hardy-Littlewood method | Diophantine equations | arithmetic geometry | arithmetic harmonic analysis | exponential sums | Waring's problem | analytic number theory
 
  Professor Dek Woolfson
Post(s): Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... primary basic research interest of the group is the informat<b>ion</b>al aspect of the protein-folding problem; that is, how does ...
Keywords: bionanotechnology | protein design | protein-folding problem | protein | bioinformatics | protein sequence | protein design
 
  Professor Diana Worrall
Post(s): Professor, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... nuclei, and jets of radio galaxies, and the multi-wavelength emiss<b>ion</b> of all classes of radio-loud AGN. My publication list is available ...
Keywords: extragalactic astrophysics | x-ray astronomy
 
  Dr Yvonne Wren
Post(s): Senior Research Speech & Language Therapist/Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Dental School
Areas of expertise: ... which helps individuals who live with any kind of communicat<b>ion</b> or swallowing impairment. This includes people who have problems ...
Keywords: speech development | language development | speech disorder | language disorder | communication needs | cleft lip and palate
 
  Dr Jane Wright
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Areas of expertise: ... (with James Vigus, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena) a collect<b>ion</b> of essays on the literary afterlives of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ...
Keywords: Victorian literature | Victorian poetry | literary afterlives | representation of gender | representation of sexuality | literature and visual culture
 
  Dr Andrew Wyatt
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: ... identity politics in India in the last two decades. The intersect<b>ion</b> of these developments with electoral change and party politics ...
Keywords: Indian politics | economic reform | economic globalisation | India elections | caste and politics | BJP
 
  Professor Paul Wyatt
Post(s): Professorial Teaching Fellow, School of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: ... because of the symmetry they employ. Although the investigat<b>ion</b> and subsequent application of some symmetry elements has been ...
Keywords: asymmetric synthesis | single enantiomers | compounds | symmetry elements | properties of molecules | more exotic symmetry elements | Photoactive Surface Science | detergents
 
  Professor Marian Yallop
Post(s): Professor of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of expertise: ... group we focus on various aspects of the structure and funct<b>ion</b> of freshwater ecosystems. One particular focus involves the ...
Keywords: freshwater ecosystems | ecosystems | benthic diatoms | lake functioning | lakes | rivers | phytoplankton | waterbirds
 
  Dr Junko Yamashita
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Society, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My research interests can be mapped around the intersect<b>ion</b> of social policy, sociology and gender studies. My research ...
Keywords: welfare state | care work | Japan | East Asia | Japanese civil society | NPOs
 
  Professor Mike Yearworth
Post(s): Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise: My research interests are in applicat<b>ion</b> and development of problem Structuring Methods (PSMs) using ...
Keywords: problem structuring methods (PSMs) | system dynamics | causal loop diagrams (CLDs) | systems thinking | systems modelling | facilitation of stakeholder workshops | group model building | discrete event modelling (DEM)
 
  Ms Wan Ching Yee
Post(s): Research Fellow, School of Education
Areas of expertise: ... home; new genetics and society; widening access to higher educat<b>ion</b>; literacy learning, numeracy learning and transfer. I am ...
Keywords: out of school learning | research ethics | ethnic diversity | widening access | literacy learning | numeracy learning | mobile learning
 
  Dr Andrew Young
Post(s): Senior Lecturer, School of Physics
Areas of expertise: ... super-massive black hole can produce tremendous quantities of radiat<b>ion</b> (often outshining an entire galaxy), and can also produce very ...
Keywords: black holes | radiation | galaxy cluster | galaxy | high velocity outflows
 
  Dr Feng Yu
Post(s): Senior Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics
Areas of expertise: ... a few years of my life doing image processing and reconstruct<b>ion</b> for various tomography problems. I still think that's a lot ...
Keywords: probabilistic methods | biology | genetics | evolution | image processing
 
  Dr Guoxing Yu
Post(s): Reader in Language Education and Assessment, School of Education
Areas of expertise: EDUCAT<b>ION</b>AL ASSESSMENT including all aspects of language testing/assessment, ...
Keywords: language testing | language assessment | applied linguistics | IELTS (International Language Testing System) | TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) | school effectiveness | educational quality | educational assessment
 
  Professor Siyuan Yu
Post(s): Professor of Photonic Information Systems, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Areas of expertise: -Photonic devices and their integrat<b>ion</b>. -Agile optical network technology, including optical switches, ...
Keywords: photonic devices | network
 
  Dr Vanda Zajko
Post(s): Reader in Classics, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Areas of expertise: I have wide-ranging research interests in the recept<b>ion</b> of classical literature, particularly in the 20th century, ...
Keywords: classics | literature | mythology | psychoanalytic theory | feminist thought | literary identifications
 
  Professor Stan Zammit
Post(s): Professor of Psychiatry, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... am particularly interested in two main fields: 1) The relat<b>ion</b>ship between cannabis use and risk of developing psychotic disorders. ...
Keywords: psychiatric disorders | epidemiology | schizophrenia | cannabis use | psychotic disorders | gene-development | psychotic symptoms
 
  Professor Yongjin Zhang
Post(s): Professor of International Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Areas of expertise: My principal research interest and publicat<b>ion</b>s cut across the boundaries of international relations theory ...
Keywords: international relations theory | Chinese history | Chinese global businesses | political economy | East Asian regionalism | regional security in the Asia-Pacific | international relations in ancient China
 
  Mr Andrea Zhok
Post(s): Language Director (Italian), Department of Italian
Areas of expertise: ... (particularly innovative ways and use of ICT and multimedia), translat<b>ion</b>, Italian current affairs and Italian opera (mainly 18th and ...
Keywords: language teaching methodology | teaching | translation | Italian current affairs | Italisn opera
 
  Dr Luisa Zuccolo
Post(s): Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Areas of expertise: ... barriers to and effects of prolonged breastfeeding. I use populat<b>ion</b> health science research methods that help disentangle causes ...
Keywords: epidemiology | prenatal alcohol exposure | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder | breastfeeding | causal inference | Mendelian randomization | Children of the 90's